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    Steve Shahbazian
    “He looked back as they shepherded the children indoors, thinking of the cities with their walls, gatehouses, razor wire, shutters, barriers, alarms, security cameras and bulletproof screens; it was the architecture of siege, not harmony. Division was engraved in the landscape and fear expressed in physical form.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #2
    Steve Shahbazian
    “By thinking in the prescribed language, we conform without realising.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #3
    Steve Shahbazian
    “If you load oppositional words with negative connotations, then critical thought is stifled. If you load supportive words with positive connotations, then people can’t avoid thinking in the prescribed way.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #4
    Steve Shahbazian
    “People want the Government to do their thinking for them. They happily regurgitate their catchphrases and slogans, thinking they’ve come up with the ideas themselves. It’s a well-known phenomenon: it’s called passive cognition.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #5
    Steve Shahbazian
    “The media’s so central to our lives that we believe what we see onscreen is real. In fact, it’s more real than reality: emotions are heightened, drama sharpened, issues simplified.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #6
    Steve Shahbazian
    “It doesn’t matter whether it’s true, only that it’s believable.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #7
    Steve Shahbazian
    “An unquestioned assertion is as good as a truth.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #14
    Steve Shahbazian
    “Rome might not have been built in a day, but it didn’t fall overnight either.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #15
    Steve Shahbazian
    “The strength of a nation is its people, not its government.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #16
    Steve Shahbazian
    “If it hadn’t been seen, it hadn’t happened.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #17
    Steve Shahbazian
    “It’s better to be an enemy of the state than a friend: a friend can only be sold, but an enemy can only be bought.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #18
    Steve Shahbazian
    “When your enemy has you by the throat, you put your enmity on hold.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #19
    Steve Shahbazian
    “A strong friend can be more dangerous than a weak enemy.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #20
    Steve Shahbazian
    “When you’re swimming with the sharks, you can’t afford to be burdened with scruples.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #21
    Steve Shahbazian
    “If you’re drowning and a murderer throws you a line, you can’t wait for someone more agreeable to come along.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #22
    Steve Shahbazian
    “Life is rarely a choice between good and bad, but bad and worse.”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

  • #23
    Steve Shahbazian
    “If we ask the state to guarantee our freedoms and ensure that justice is done, who guarantees that it does so?”
    Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land



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