Jesse Ventura Quotes

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.

I am a public library

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.