“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“He who acts, harms; he who grabs, lets slip.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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