Arunaa Ramesh

“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four