“There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― 1984
― 1984
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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