“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― 1984
― 1984
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