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27 Oct 2010, 11:51 pm by Tessa Shepperson
George Orwell stayed there and wrote about it in “Down and Out in Paris and London”. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 8:12 am by Schachtman
George Orwell would have appreciated the slippery and soul-less use of the passive voice. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 8:09 am by David S. Kemp
” That power of surveillance would eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, erode our core constitutional protections, and establish a dystopia not unlike those depicted in George Orwell’s 1984 and Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report. [read post]
16 May 2012, 2:29 am
(with apologies to George Orwell). [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 1:04 pm
In this respect, I stand with George Orwell who spent the 1930s and 1940s denouncing the obscurity of intellectuals' prose as a cloak for tyranny (and, incidentally, who was also accused of being an anti-intellectual). [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 4:13 am by SHG
**When George Orwell wrote about “meaningless words,” he was talking about people who do the Berlatsky. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 9:17 am by South Florida Lawyers
of the original panel who joined Judge Schwartz in  certifying the question to the Supremes -- pens a vigorous dissent, sprinkling in references to rednecks and lowlifes, rubber stamps, purple cars, "red cows," the Wizard of Oz, George Orwell, charges of elitism, cars that "perplexingly metamorphosize" into trucks, horses that turn into zebras, and Fritz Leiber's post-apocalyptic classic, The Night of the Long Knives (I made that last one up, but it… [read post]
1 May 2016, 5:43 am by SHG
George Orwell put the point simply: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Hastings quotes George Orwell in explaining that the only way to end a war quickly is to lose it. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 9:55 am
  However, if left unchecked, the capitalistic ends may test our traditional notions of civil liberty.Sources:[1]  GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 (Plume 2003) (1961).[2]  Intrepid Liberal Journal, Brain Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties,  May 23, 2006 [www.politicalcortex.com] (last visited Nov. 20, 2007).[3]  Id. [4]  Id.[5]  Id.[6]  Philip Bereano, Does Genetic Research Threaten Our Civil Liberties? [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 1:04 pm
George Orwell made it clear that the Party was not interested in creating a new society or propagating a new ideology. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 5:07 am by Jamison Koehler
Described by the dissent as “creative law-making,” Scalia’s argument sounds like something straight out of George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 4:20 am by SHG
In George Orwell’s experience, when you see another person as “visibly a fellow-creature, similar to yourself, [then] you don’t feel like shooting at him. [read post]
In George Orwell’s 1942 essay, Looking Back on the Spanish War, he wrote: “[I]n Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 2:03 pm by Rechtsanwalt & Strafverteidiger
Aber wie bei George Orwells „1984“ funktioniert die Überwachung nur einseitig: Der Staat entscheidet, ob etwas aufgenommen wird und wer es zu sehen bekommt. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 4:01 am by Mario Machado
  –George Orwell, Animal Farm (Original Preface) Let’s begin with stating the obvious: for some many of my fellow primates, there are some words that are just too much to bear. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:24 am by Jay Stanley
Invoking George Orwell, President Clinton himself acknowledged that “any kind of identification card like that sort of smacks of Big Brotherism. [read post]