Dan

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”
― Amadou Hampâté Bâ

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984