Terry Pratchett

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face.” – George Orwell, 1984 “Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” – George Orwell, 1984 ...

失意莫灰心，得意不忘形。 不怨天，不尤人，下学而上达。– 《论语·宪问》 Sancho tells Don Quijote: “Don’t die, Señor; your grace should take my advice and live for many years, because the greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die, just like that.” “I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose,” Cervantes famously wrote. rational animal Kant, 1724-1804 uses reaon as his base of argument. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality and that the categorical imperative binds all rational agents. Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787) ...