“ 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
