The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

It__ remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method._ Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library