Beatriz Costa > Beatriz's Quotes

“I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“They won't kill us for the same reason they won't sanction abortions. We've turned into necessary evils, objects to be fucked and not heard.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“My fault started two decades ago, the first time I didn't vote, the umpteen times I told Jackie I was too busy to go on one of her marches or make posters or call my congressmen.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“-----If you walk like a fascist, talk like a fascist, think the rules do not apply to you; if you seek to destroy the democratic institutions of your nation, solely to serve your own personal ends; if you foment racism, violence, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and racial intolerance; if you constantly lie to the people of your country; if you seek to destroy the credibility of news organizations to inoculate yourself against them reporting to the nation about your crimes; if you knowingly collude with foreign powers to undermine your country’s electoral process; if you sell public policy, domestic and foreign, to the highest bidder…you just might be a fascist.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto