george orwell

In honor of George Owell’s birthday yesterday, here’s a selection of our favorite quotes about freedom of speech, political correctness, and the First Amendment. “Political correctness is tyranny; just tyranny with manners.” – Charlton Heston “Why does the left hate free speech? Because they...

“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.” – Down and Out in Paris and London “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” – The Ethics of the Detective Story from Raffles to...

Famous Liberty Quotes That You’ll Want to Free up Some Time For Why should you give a fig about liberty quotes? Have you ever spoken with someone who has just discovered a new television show, and they’re going absolutely bananas about how you need to watch it too? “Oh, I just know you’re...

We live in the Golden Age of Government Surveillance, as our rulers today have access to technologies that the dictators of years past could have only dreamed about. It’s safe to assume that everything you have typed on the Internet since 9/11 is stored on some government database somewhere...

Much like human beings and other animals, civilizations have a life cycle. They begin, they become powerful, they become decadent, they decline. There is no reason to believe that our current civilization will be any different. On the contrary, there is ample evidence that it will decline and...

While history does not repeat, knowing more about history makes it easier to understand the present as well as the future. There is a reason that kings and philosophers alike have sought to understand both the events of the past and how they have historically been interpreted – because there is...

http://www.eyeopening.info/2014/08/17/george-orwell-quotes-that-predicted-life-in-america/#.U_HRwksVdFy (Rest of the 10 Quotes on link at top of post.)