I'm a voracious reader. Always have been. One of my favourite authors is George Orwell. A man truly ahead of his time when it came to understanding how governments operate. Here's a collection of his quotes I'm particularly fond of.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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