Quote by Doris Lessing on Public Libraries and Democracy

„A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.“

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Doris Lessing was a British-South African writer known for her critical novels and essays on society, politics, and human nature.

This quote by Doris Lessing emphasizes the importance of public libraries as democratic institutions capable of challenging power structures.


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Doris Lessing quote about public libraries and democracy

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was a British-South African writer renowned for her novels, essays, and short stories that explored themes such as politics, society, psychology, and the role of women. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

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"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." Robert A. Heinlein
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