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“Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them,”
“An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It’s convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn’t breathe.”
A corrupt leader needs to control what the people think so they don’t revolt. There are three ways to do that: don’t allow them to learn anything that counters the official line, bombard them with propaganda disguised as news, and finally, give them a distraction, usually an enemy.”
“It always comes down to someone’s greed. History is populated by the distorted tyrants and corrupt businessmen willing to trade a cup full of blood for a purse filled with gold. Prior to the Banoff, the world spent trillions every year on weapons. What does that say about our species? How can we evolve to something higher when we insist on killing one another for profit?”
“Bradbury once said, ‘Without the library, you have no civilization.’
Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.
