“Behold! human beings living in an underground den… Like ourselves… They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.” Plato
“By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property…the landscape is deformed.” Henry David Thoreau
“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.” Oscar Wilde
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” George Orwell
“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” George Orwell