David Nasaw quotes

David Nasaw quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”
-- David Nasaw

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“Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.”
-- David Nasaw

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“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.”
-- David Nasaw

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“Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.”
-- David Nasaw

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“To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.”
-- David Nasaw

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“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada
“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
“Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.48, Vintage Canada
“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”
“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”
“We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.”
“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”

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