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Yeah, heh, good luck with that. George Orwell:
- If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
- A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
- All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
- Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
- Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
- The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
- The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
- The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
- The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
- The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
- There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
31 posted on
04/30/2021 9:20:47 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted , thanks C19fan.

46 posted on
05/02/2025 12:59:58 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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