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“A machine evolves by becoming more efficient, that is, more foolproof; hence the objective of mechanical progress is a foolproof world—which may or may not mean a world inhabited by fools.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: john-galt

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“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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“Why is the dance beautiful? Answer: because it is an unfree movement. Because the deep meaning of the dance is contained in its absolute, ecstatic submission, in the ideal non-freedom. If it is true that our ancestors would abandon themselves in dancing at the most inspired moments of their lives (religious mysteries, military parades), then it means only one thing: the instinct of non-freedom has been characteristic of human nature from ancient times, and we in our life of today, we are only consciously—”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: distopian, human-nature, soviet-union

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