Michal

“I do not think the Socialist need make any sacrifice of essentials, but certainly he will have to make a great sacrifice of externals. It would help enormously, for instance, if the smell of crankishness which still clings to the Socialist movement could be dispelled. If only the sandals and the pistachio-coloured shirts could be put in a pile and burnt, and every vegetarian, teetotaller and creeping Jesus sent home to Welwyn Garden City to do his yoga exercises quietly!”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion

“And in all of us there is at least a tinge of that habit of mind. In every country in the world the large army of scientists and technicians, with the rest of us panting at their heels, is marching along the road of ‘progress’ with the blind persistence of a column of ants.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Thine face is not worth sunburning.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V