This is reprinted from my friend Erica's Myspace blog.
The following are quotes by George Orwell. They seem extremely poignant and timely, and a powerful reminder to ALWAYS question what your leaders are telling you.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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W3rd.
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