"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
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy