It’s Orwell Week (#2 of 3) George Orwell was a pen name for Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic best known for the novella Animal Farm (1945), and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Despite having spoken on BBC radio many, many times, no recordings of Orwell’s voice are known to exist. That … See the Meme
It’s Orwell Week (#1 of 3). Orwell understood policing.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction, best known for Fahrenheit 451.
But the time you spend wasted is definitely wasted time. Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1950).
Le Guin (1929–January 22, 2018) was an American novelist who worked mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.
Eckhart von Hochheim OP (c1260–c1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart or Eckehart, was a German theologian….
Tolstoy’s ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Or, as I usually put it, we need to teach people how to think, not what to think. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1950).
I’ve always thought this quote was profound.
Burroughs (1837–1921) was an American bank examiner, writer, and naturalist. It’s true: you can either go back and spend another five hours surfing Facebook, or you can actually get out and do something to improve the world. What will it be?