It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies…” — George Orwell In his book, 1984, Orwell singled out women (especially young women) as the most eager adherents of the Party. America should get serious about what is going on with the protests
Thanks very much for giving us the MAGA view, mcfarm!
Thanks again, mcfarm!
I know that you copied your quote from one of your far right sources.
I actually used my brain and critical thinking to select these George Orwell quotes based on them applying to the current regime in the White House:
When I use quotes and sources, I always list those, as you've noted the past 2 decades from my posting(even before taking over as moderator).
The reasons to do that are several for me but certainly not required by anybody else.
1. Allow readers access to the same information for additional learning-my favorite
2. To be transparent
3. To not plagiarize
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3706.George_Orwell
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“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.”
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Holy Cow! That's only after going over the first few of 100 pages!!!!!
I think I just discovered the basic concepts of Donald Trump's MAGA playbook
Thanks extremely much, mcfarm!
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