“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
"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 remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."
- Charlie Munger
Wisdom
"So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly."
Wisdom
"In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life."
Wisdom
"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and receipts for all major purchases."
- Bridger Winegar
Wisdom
"Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
- Zimbabwean Proverb
Wisdom