Nonsense and all that jazz

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

- Doris Lessing

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
- W.H. Auden

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Emerson

Organization is the enemy of improvisation.
- Unknown

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Aldous Huxley

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

- Emerson