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  • #1
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #2
    Harlan Ellison
    “The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
    Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

  • #3
    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #4
    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #5
    Harlan Ellison
    “In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #6
    Harlan Ellison
    “I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “2 + 2 = 5”
    George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984

  • #8
    Joseph Heller
    “He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains”
    Joseph Heller

  • #9
    Jodi Picoult
    “You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

  • #10
    Sappho
    “I declare
    That later on,
    Even in an age unlike our own,
    Someone will remember who we are.”
    Sappho, Come Close

  • #11
    Sappho
    “You are, I think, an evening star,
    the fairest of all the stars.”
    Sappho

  • #12
    Sappho
    “Dawn with arms of roses”
    Sappho, Fragments

  • #13
    Sappho
    “I am weary of all your words and soft, strange ways.”
    Sappho, Fragments

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #16
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #17
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #20
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #21
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #22
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #25
    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #26
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #29
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #30
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume



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