“Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; Security is the denial of life.”

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970.

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“There’s a divinity that shapes our end; Rough-hew them how we will.”

Hamlet, Act 5, scene 2, 1.10, William Shakespeare, 1601.

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“One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”

Joseph Stalin.

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“The street is lined with cars. There’s not enough breath of fresh air in the neighbourhood. The grass don’t grow anymore, you can’t even raise a carrot in the backyard. They should’ve had a law against apartment houses.”

Willy Loman, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1948.

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“And what goes through a man’s mind driving seven hundred miles home without having earned a cent?” Linda Loman, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1948.

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“At fifty, everyone has the face they deserve.”

George Orwell, 17th April 1949.

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Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

George Orwell, 1950.

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“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

George Orwell.

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“My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity.”

Wilfred Owen, 1918.

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“Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762.

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