Orwell knew of what he spoke, being a communist himself. Incredibly relevant today.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell
Tag: Quote of the Day
11JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Determining who has style may be too subjective, but I get his meaning about men who have lived and thought as opposed to just scribblers.
“To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.”
Aldous Huxley
10JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Americans should distrust puffery Someone should have told this to Obama when he went on about it’s not who we are.
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'”
Mark Twain
09JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
But sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between belittling and sane caution.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.”
Mark Twain
08JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
This is a man who has made some detours.
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
Mark Twain
07JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
The sin of the smart lazy guy.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
06JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Sadly, this is usually true.
“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”
Aristotle
05JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
How is it possible this guy wasn’t a time traveller from the future?
“It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”
Aristotle
04JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Happy Birthday My Fellow Americans! This quote has something for us to remember. Strength and Faith. They come from a quiet place within.
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. (actual author Harriet Beecher Stowe)
When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. (actual author Anonymous)
Where liberty dwells there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
03JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
“We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.”
Benjamin Franklin