George Orwell Quote: How Political Language Masks Lies and Murder
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell
“Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn’t reveal itself, but it distorts everything.”
Richard Dreyfuss
“And they created the school as the devil commanded. The child loves nature, so he was locked in four walls. He can not sit without moving, so he was forced into immobility. He likes to work with his hands, and he began to teach theories and ideas. He likes to talk – he was told to remain silent. He seeks to understand – he was commanded to learn by heart. He would like to explore and search for knowledge himself, but he was given them in ready form. And then the children learned what they would never have learned in other conditions. They learned to lie and pretend.”
Adolphe Ferrière
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.”
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry
“Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
Howard Zinn
“Democracy is the method of implementing the will of the financial aristocracy in such a way that the people believe that humanity wanted it that way.”
Matthias Lubos
“We are unable to even conceive of the immeasurable achievements, progress, and discoveries of mankind that would be attainable in an entrepreneurial environment freed from all etatism. The creative power of human nature is such that it can take root and flourish even in the narrowest crevices left by the state. But when people realize the essentially perverse nature of the state that coerces them and perceive the immeasurable possibilities that are taken away from them day after day by blocking the driving force of their entrepreneurial creativity, then social protest will increase. Then there will be calls for reforms, for dismantling the state, and for steps toward a future that we don’t even know today, but that will inevitably lift human civilization to previously unimaginable heights.”
Jesús Huerta de Soto
“We’re dealing with a culture of teenage babies, they can watch TV, do their homework, and listen to music all at the same time. The strongest appeal you can make is emotional. If you can get their emotions going, make them forget their logic…you’ve got them. At MTV, we don’t shoot for the 14 year olds – WE OWN THEM,”
Robert (Bob) Pittman
“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
Thomas Sowell
