“I'm not against people making money. I'm against people controlling what you do with your property.”— Jon Lech Johansen
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”— Samuel Lover
“In order to obtain a certain result, you must want to obtain precisely that result; if you want to obtain a certain result, you will obtain it.”— Trofim Lysenko
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”— George Orwell
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”— Hannah Arendt
“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”— Tony Benn
“Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals.”— Jacques Ellul
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”— Frank Herbert
“The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome.”— Phil Jackson