Green and Pleasant Land Quotes

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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