This week I’m reprising my favorites quotes
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
George Orwell
Tag: George Orwell
13JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Yes, we journalists are so very brave.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
George Orwell
12JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Orwell knew of what he spoke, being a communist himself. Incredibly relevant today.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell
11JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
George Orwell
All of 1984 encapsulated in one image.
10JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.”
George Orwell
Both sides know this.
9JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell
Thus the reason they wanted control of the schools.
8JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
The idiots in Antifa come to mind.
7JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell
And being a Communist he knew whereof he spoke.
6JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
I never knew this was an Orwell quote. I assumed it was a Founding Father.
05JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
George Orwell
1984 is a terrible book to give a young person to read. But it should be required reading in our present age.