Quote by George Orwell

“He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.”

— Natsume Sōseki

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was…

— Joseph Conrad

“He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.”

— Graham Greene

“It was too much for him, the knowledge that all of this had happened before. That he was the scion of a people abused;…

— N.K. Jemisin

“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked…

— Victor Hugo

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

“If there is an undeniable fact, attested to a thousand times by experience, it is the corrupting effect produced by authority on those who…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron