Newspeak/Quotes
Old habits, unrelated to sustainable development, can be eradicated only if replaced with something else. Therefore, real social and civil consciousness must be replaced by “civic competence”; authentic relations between sexes by sustainable equality; educated society by “knowledge-based society”, etc. The popular consent is affirmed by accepting the new rules and, above all, new language. If you find yourself irritated by obligation to apply exclusively female gender pronouns in academic texts or by replacing history by “herstory”, rest assured that your sentiment is well founded and in fact deadly serious. — Kali Tribune English, Agenda 21: An Introduction
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The utilitarians have constructed an artificial language in which it is impossible to express such concepts “the rule of law”, “natural rights”, or any idea or fact that would reject the limitless, absolute, lawless and capricious power of the state, and they seek to impose that language on the world. —James A. Donald, Natural Law and Natural Rights
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Generally speaking, words like 'agent of,' 'Democracy,' 'Freedom,' etc. meant something quite different in Party usage from what they meant in general usage; and as, furthermore, even their Party meaning changed with each shift of the line, our polemical methods became rather like the croquet game of the Queen of Hearts, in which the hoops moved about the field and the balls were live hedgehogs. With this difference, that when a player missed his turn and the Queen shouted 'Off with his head,' the order was executed in earnest. To survive, we all had to become virtuosos of Wonderland croquet.” —The God That Failed by Arthur Koestler
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