If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.
Ben MacintyreLibraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.
Ben MacintyreTo disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.
Ben Macintyre