In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
— George Orwell · Defense
The World Motivation
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
— George Orwell · Defense
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.