A Final Warning

May 1, 2021

In these times, we should continually remind ourselves of the power of words, alone. Ask questions: What do they serve? Whom do they serve? Where are they leading?

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words [or Medium] in which to express it.”

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”


Speak: Tell The Truth

May 9, 2018

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“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
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“Nonviolence does not mean meek submission to the will of the evil doer, but it means the pitting of one’s whole soul against the will of the tyrant. Working under this law of our being, it is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul and lay . . . the foundations for that empire’s fall or its regeneration.” Gandhi
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“Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase – some jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse – into the dustbin where it belongs.” George Orwell

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