Byren Burdess

“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.”
― Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.”
― Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism

“A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, “I do it to save time”. A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend’s expense? Isn’t his time as valuable as yours?”
― Lewis Carroll, Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing