Quotes - Dawn Cahrmecen (Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

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

tags: inspirational

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#2

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

tags: truth

8553 likes

#3

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3138 likes

#4

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

2564 likes

#5

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#6

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights

1696 likes

#7

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

1310 likes

#8

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2266 likes

#9

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2207 likes

#10

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1822 likes

#11

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

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#12

“Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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#13

“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

tags: death, grief, identity, loss, mourning, relationships

547 likes

#14

“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
― Carrie Jones, Captivate

tags: bereavement, loss, mourning

363 likes

#15

“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

tags: mourning, sula

317 likes

#16

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom

5218 likes

#17

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

2901 likes

#18

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

306 likes

#19

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

2812 likes

#20

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”
― Banksy

412 likes

#21

“Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.”
― Ann Major, The Girl With The Golden Spurs

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#22

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: liberty, tyranny

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