Zero Hour America Quotes

“With the excesses of the gender revolution the revolt against terms and categories becomes a revolt against reality, and all the rest of us are pressured to deny the obvious, believe in the incredible, and go along with the charade of the emperor’s new clothes. (“Only a woman can get pregnant,” but such truisms are now held to be false and offensive.)”
― Os Guinness, Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give

“As in 1984, so today: war is peace, slavery is freedom, error is truth, evil is good, and if they say so, men are women and women are men. At the more popular level, American freedom has been battered by wave after wave of relativism (there is no objective truth), followed by emotivism (truth is whatever you feel to be true), historicism (each age and now each generation is shaped by its own truth), and then constructivism (“truth” is socially constructed according to what we all together take to be true or make to be true). Yet postmodernism speaks out of both sides of its mouth. It offers relativism as a universal entitlement: “Everyone is entitled to their own truth, so your truth is as good as anyone else’s truth.” But then comes the catch. Postmodernism is also all about power, and therefore the powerful. So, to paraphrase Orwell.”
― Os Guinness, Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give

“For anyone who understands freedom, it is simply inescapable that freedom requires truth, a shared sense of truth, and therefore trustworthiness and trust.”
― Os Guinness, Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give

“In his famous novel 1984, O’Brien states frankly, “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.”
― Os Guinness, Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give

“To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be “the completest revolution of all.” The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.”
― Os Guinness, Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give