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Doublespeak Quotes

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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush

Ben Shapiro
“Only at [a] university is a riot an "uprising," a police officer a thug, and a criminal a hero.”
Ben Shapiro, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

“If Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist wasn’t addicted to the pain-killing drug his doctor prescribed, but instead it was just that the drug had ‘established an interrelationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction,â€� you needn’t question that his decisions might have been influenced by his drug addiction.”
William Lutz

Joseph Finder
“The pitch we used to convince companies to spend $50 million bucks for one of our planes was that it wasn't simply a means of transportation; oh no - it was 'a productivity tool'. It allowed an executive to make good use of his travel time and a relaxed and refreshed executive could seal the deal much more effectively than his travel-worn counterpart. Yeah, right. You can always justify any obscene luxury on the grounds of productivity...”
Joseph Finder, Power Play

George Orwell
“You do not exist”
George Orwell, 1984

Otter Lieffe
“When he was with a client, he had to be careful not to use any of the forbidden words. Struggle, resist, rebel, queer—and a host of others—were considered too radical by the State and had been banned decades ago, replaced with more innocuous words such as 'to make effort ', 'to dispute' and 'to betray'. Queer, having passed through 'LGBTQIA+' at the turn of the century and 'Sexual and gender divergents' to decades later, now had no permissible equivalent that wasn't a slur. As the linguists working in the State knew very well, without a vocabulary to express it, there could be no concept. By banning the very idea of queerness, they hoped that the people themselves would also disappear.”
Otter Lieffe, Margins and Murmurations