Quotes About Access

Certainly the shahadah contained an important theological innovation, but that innovation was not monotheism. With this simple profession of faith, Muhammad was declaring to Mecca that the God of the heavens and the earth required no intermediate whatsoever, but could be accessed by anyone.

No one's permitted in except contractors, owners, and local officialdom (plus President Obama and our big candied yam of a governor).

Lady Johanna, there is always more than one way into a keep.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy.

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.