Vendredi 13 Quotes & Sayings

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. — Aldous Huxley

A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit. — Belsebuub

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops. — Rory Freedman

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them ... not as if they had met before ... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. — Lisa Kleypas