Famous quotes containing the words important and/or role:
“What is more important in a library than anything else—than everything else—is the fact that it exists.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)