GEORGE ORWELL. 1903-1950 “1984” “Brave New World”
REAL POWER is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
IN A TIME of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
THE FURTHER a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak the truth.
THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
THE PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE WHAT THE MEDIA TELLS THEM THEY BELIEVE.
FREE SPEECH IS MY RIGHT TO SAY WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR.
THE PAST WAS ERASED, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
IT’S FRIGHTFUL that people;e who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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.
THE WAR IS NOT MEANT TO BE WON, IT IS MEANT TO BE CONTINUOUS.
EVERYONE BELIEVES in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
WHO CONTROLS the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
WAR against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
JOURNALISM is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
POLITICAL LANGUAGE . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
THERE IS NO swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
HOWEVER much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
CHUCK SMITH 1927-2013 “What God Wrought”
WISDOM IS KNOWING WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT YOU KNOW.
WHAT we are lacking today is a real hatred of evil.
I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
RITUALISM is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and depth.
OUR HEART is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.
RICKY GERVAIS. 1961– “The Office” “Flanimals”
BE HAPPY. IT REALLY ANNOYS NEGATIVE PEOPLE.
WHEN YOU ARE DEAD, you do not know you are dead. It’s only painful and difficult for others. the same applies when you are stupid.
THE BEST ADVICE I ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’
ENJOY LIFE. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It’s all we’ve got.
REMEMBER, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission.
YOU ARE the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful.
THE NEXT TIME someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR. 1954– Associate Supreme Court justice
REMEMBER that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
THE GREATEST obstacle in life is fear, and giving up because of it.
DON’T MISTAKE POLITENESS FOR LACK OF STRENGTH.
THE WAY TO STOP DISCRIMINATION on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.
THERE ARE NO BYSTANDERS in life . . . our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
HAPPY TRAILS