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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
― Louis D. Brandeis

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
― Louis D. Brandeis

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.”
― Paul Wellstone

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie