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“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

tags: conflict, division, society

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#2

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

tags: language, politics, propaganda

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#3

“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

tags: language, politics, propaganda, thought

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#4

“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

tags: language, politics, propaganda, thought

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#5

“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

tags: deception, disinformation, fake-news, mass-media, propaganda, reality

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#6

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

tags: deception, disinformation, fake-news, mass-media, propaganda, reality

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#7

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

tags: deception, disinformation, fake-news, lies, propaganda

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#8

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#9

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

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

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#10

“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

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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#11

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

tags: future

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#12

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

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#13

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

tags: politics-language

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#14

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

tags: civilisation, history, politics, roman-empire, society

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#15

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

tags: freedom, government, liberty, politics, society, state

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#16

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

tags: deception, lies, politics, secrecy, truth

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#17

“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

tags: cynical, cynicism, enmity, government, politics, power, state

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#18

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

tags: conflict, cynical, cynicism, enmity, politics, power

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#19

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

tags: conflict, cynical, cynicism, enmity, politics, power

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#20

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

tags: conflict, cynical, cynicism, enmity, morality, politics, power

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#21

“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

tags: cynical, cynicism, life, moral-dilemma, morality

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#22

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

tags: choice, cynical, cynicism, life, morality

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#23

“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

tags: freedom, government, justice, liberty, politics, power, society, state, totalitarianism

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