The impulses of an incontinent man carry him in th — Aristóteles
The impulses of an incontinent man carry him in the opposite direction from that towards which he was aiming.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Adam Smith
Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3
George Orwell
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw