“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”