Orwellian Nightmare Quotes

“Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world-- the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley-- ...I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially because now it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What's Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Monsters We Deserve

“Interpreting events;' interpreting the universally visible, entirely INdubitable Revelation of the Author of this Universe: how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know? Poor wretch, one sees what kind of meaning HE educes from Man's History, this long while past, and has got all the world to believe of it along with him. Unhappy Dryasdust, thrice-unhappy world that takes Dryasdust's reading of the ways of God!”
― Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II of Prussia Volumes 1 - 9: Frederick the Great

“If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society,
of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand.”
― Ben Bagdikian

“Thou Shalt Kill by Stewart Stafford

Today, an official declaration:
"The past's forbidden soil is virgin;
The present, a thunderous chariot,
To glory's gold destiny awaiting us.
Go forth and offer up sacrifices!"

But the blood we spilt was red,
Whichever body it spurted from.
Pleas for help, fused into one.
Witnesses to death grew jaded.

We made the living into the dead,
Forged museums of crowded streets,
In executioners' hoods at limp dawn.
Arising afresh to our deliverance.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Even a civil people can live mostly with ease in a society littered with evil; but where evil is considered good and good considered evil, peace gets a little bit lethal.”
― Criss Jami