- “[In the West] unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for an official ban.”
George Orwell
George Orwell
“I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. […]
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Mark Twain
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” Victor Hugo
“In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.” King Croesus – 550 B.C.