Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Book, Ideas, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.79, Da Capo Press

• So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Book, Wife

• A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Music, Book

• Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Book, Reading, Loss

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