"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
- George Orwell
Awareness
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
- George Orwell
Awareness
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell
Awareness
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell
Awareness
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
- George Orwell
Awareness
"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."
- Beauty and the Beast
Relationships
"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."
- Nick Cannon
Relationships
"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."
Relationships
"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."
- Donald E. Westlake
Relationships
"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."
- Lucille Ball
Relationships