1984, George Orwell (via philphys)
On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
DO YOU EVER THINK THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BEING TOTAL BADASSES WITH TIME TO KILL AND MONEY TO BURN?
… NO, NOT REALLY.
YEAH, ME NEITHER.
“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
(Source: bouncingdodecahedrons)
“The prevention of free inquiry is unavoidable so long as the purpose of education is to produce belief rather than thought, to compel the young to hold positive opinions on doubtful matters rather than to let them see the doubtfulness and be encouraged to independence of mind. Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.”
-Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight (1916)
Wow, that is a great picture of the man.
People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
(Source: fobiasocial)
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell (via thinksquad)
