Siddharth Daga

“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century - the attempt to concentrate all information in one place - might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first cenutry.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Feelings are thus not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century