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  • #1
    Alan             Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #2
    Alan             Moore
    “Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #3
    Alan             Moore
    “Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #4
    Alan             Moore
    “It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #5
    Alan             Moore
    “They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #6
    Alan             Moore
    “Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #7
    Alan             Moore
    “Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #8
    Alan             Moore
    “While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #9
    Alan             Moore
    “Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #10
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

  • #11
    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

  • #12
    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #13
    Aldous Huxley
    “That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
    Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

  • #14
    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays

  • #15
    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #16
    Aldous Huxley
    “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
    Huxley Aldous

  • #17
    Aldous Huxley
    “Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

  • #18
    Aldous Huxley
    “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
    Aldous Huxley
    tags: dogs

  • #19
    Aldous Huxley
    “...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #20
    Aldous Huxley
    “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
    Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

  • #21
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #22
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #23
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
    Teddy Roosevelt

  • #24
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
    Theodore Roosevelt



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