| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Often, people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to earn money to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like. |
Nigel Marsh | ||
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. |
Marshall McLuhan | 1911 – 1980 | |
A world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | As I Please (1943–1947) |
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. |
Charles Caleb Colton | 1780 – 1832 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […] The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg. |
Pretentious? Moi? |
John Cleese | born 1939 | Fawlty Towers Oxford dictionary of quotations |
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! |
Douglas Adams | 1952 – 2001 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978) |