“Every lie haunts our future.”
2010s, Lying (2011)
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Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.4
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in Traits of a Healthy Family (1985) by Dolores Curran, p. 199.
Context: The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
Cormac McCarthy book The Road
Source: The Road
Norbert Wiener book God & Golem, Inc.
Source: God & Golem, Inc. (1964), p. 69
Source: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Context: [T]he future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Variant: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Source: White Teeth (2000)
“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940) Indian historian
quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
