Morning thoughts of George Orwell

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo) 09/12/2019 at 10:33 • Filed to: None

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A few thoughts from George Orwell...

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”

“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”

“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ImmoralMinority 09/12/2019 at 10:53

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And now I’m hungry for a Big Kahuna burger...

Ash78, voting early and often > ImmoralMinority 09/12/2019 at 10:54

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Someone should have punched that Nazi-loving fascist oligarch straight in the nose!

/s

WiscoProud > ImmoralMinority 09/12/2019 at 11:10

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God forbid people try to improve the world and the lives of the people who live within it. Conservatism is defined as “ holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation”. Change happens regardless of what you want. It shouldn’t be unfettered, but change in inevitable.  

WilliamsSW > ImmoralMinority 09/12/2019 at 11:15

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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”

- George Orwell

MrSnrub > ImmoralMinority 09/12/2019 at 11:59

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“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”

-George Orwell, 1946

“If people think I am defending the status quo , that is, I think, because they have grown pessimistic and assume that there is no alternative except dictatorship or laissez-faire capitalism.”

-Orwell on Animal Farm

I’m not sure he would  have agreed with you on much