“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― Major Barbara
― Major Barbara
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough , it is your God-given right to have it...I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― 1984
― 1984
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