“ A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their i… C.P. Snow
“ As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scop… Alberto Manguel
“ I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read. Nicole Peeler
“ Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it. Paul Bamikole
“ The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. Benjamin Franklin
“ This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. Elbert Hubbard
“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
“ Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability… Peter S. Jennison
“ Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and a… Chris Hedges
“ First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived man… Celsus
“ The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it. Trevor Noah
“ Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the rule… Alaa Al Aswany
