Libraries Rule Quotes

“There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too.”
― Eric Klinenberg (author), Palaces for the People

“libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder”
― Gail Honeyman

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”
― Archibald MacLeish