I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modify into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World.; ~ From a letter to George Orwell, dated 21 October 1949. From Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith; Harper & Row, 1969.
War and mass slaughter of Europe’s finest young men became mechanized, industrial, and all-consuming. No longer did armies simply face each other across a battlefield in ordered rows to slog it out until one side was victorious, entire cities and nations would be left in ruins and generation after generation of young men would be wiped out of existence.
‘Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.’ ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Poet.
This occurred during a pre-election rally of the Freedom Party when the rafters were raised by a spontaneous rendering of “Wenn alle untreu werden” (If all become unfaithful, we remain loyal).
A friend once boasted that if you pressed a little button on his new watch the hands lit up. I asked him if he had never heard of a luminous watch.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ – President John F. Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway, the war correspondent during Spain’s civil war, had a message for today’s politicians: ‘No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting, or exempt from fighting, should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this […]
Card payments at shop cashpoints mean the banks and the government know what you are buying. It does more than that as it indicates your real unmonitored wealth. Cash is freedom and protects against a surveillance state, say German politicians warning against left-wing interior minister’s new war on […]
At the time when the Soviet Union was interfering in South Africa’s domestic affairs, a joke poked fun at politicians’ buck-wagon expressions. Speaking to a gathering crowd of African villagers in tedious political cliché a visiting uniformed Soviet Commissar earned constant applause. The uniformed Soviet functionary told the […]
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