History Quotes / NewSpeak

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->''"Words are the new weapons; satellites, the new artillery."''
-->-- '''Elliot Carver''', ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

->''"A guy who likes to blame everything on the Jews. He's a former Klansman who claims that he left his racist days behind long ago, but that's bullshit. He uses the word "Zionist" more than he uses the word 'the.' It's essentially his subtle way of saying Kike."''

->'''Matt''': Stryker’s in the Oval Office asking the president permission for a “special operation” and talking about “school reform.” In my experience, that is pitch-perfect bureaucratic talk.
->'''Chris:''' That’s the level that Stryker’s at, actually wanting [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide a race war.]]
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''Matt Wilson''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-x2-x-men-united-2003-part-one/ on]] ''Film/X2XMenUnited''

->''"To be 'Orwellian' is to speak with absolute clarity, to be succinct, to explain what the event is, to talk about what triggers something happening… and to do so without any pejorative whatsoever!"''

->''"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you [[StartXToStopX liberate a city by destroying it]]. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."''

->''"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."''

->''"Game consoles were so tainted in the eyes of the fickle public, that when Nintendo called their machine an '[[{{NES}} entertainment system]]' rather than a game console, it sold fucking gangbusters. For you see, the public are fickle but [[ViewersAreMorons not particularly smart]]."''

->''"Every time a community springs up supposedly based only on mocking the 'excesses' of '{{Tumblr}} activists,' the moderates who are in it just to make fun of the feminists or anti-racists who are 'actually crazy' find themselves joined by 'redpillers' (i.e. [[HeManWomanHater men’s rights activists]]) and advocates of 'human biodiversity' (a coy euphemism for [[TheSocialDarwinist scientific racism and eugenics]])."''

->''"After years of [[StayInTheKitchen opposing the women’s movement]], for example, Phyllis Schlafly seemed genuinely incapable of conjuring the prefeminist view of women as deferential wives and mothers. Instead, she celebrated the activist 'power of the positive woman.' When she spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment ([[{{UsefulNotes/Feminism}} ERA]]), she didn’t claim that it introduced a radical new language of rights. Her argument was the opposite. The ERA, she told the Washington Star, 'is [[YouMayPanicNow a takeaway of women’s rights.]]' It will 'take away the right of the wife in an ongoing marriage, the wife in the home.' Schlafly was obviously using the language of rights in a way that was opposed to the aims of the feminist movement; she was using rights talk to put women back into the home, to keep them as wives and mothers."''

->''"Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: [[IRejectYourReality What you wish to be true is all that matters]], regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, [[PoesLaw we thought we were being farcical]]."''

->''"The United States, to an unusual extent, is [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety a business-run society]], more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious...We don’t use the term 'working class' here because it’s a taboo term. You’re supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there’s a class war going on."''

->''"Sound science has two meanings. When used by scientists it means robustly supported science, confirmed by multiple peer-reviewed studies. When used in politics it means ideologically sound science, i.e. a euphemism for [[PropagandaMachine industry-funded pseudoscientific bullshit.]]"''

->''"In [[{{Eagleland}} America]], 99 percent of the money belongs to about 300 men. Those men are certain you want their money, and if you've ever wanted money for any reason, they're probably right. It's turned the rich into paranoid hoarders, and for some reason they pay Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} to tell us all about it... They refer to billionaires as 'job creators' instead of '[[CorruptCorporateExecutive human hunters]].' They call it a [[YouMayPanicNow War on Success]] if you apply basic economic theories to the financial crisis. And they accuse you of [[RedScare communism]] if you notice that any of this is retarded."''

->''"For what it’s worth, a school shooting is defined by Wikipedia as 'an occurrence in which an individual discharges a gun and that incident takes place at an education institution.' This seems pretty straightforward. There is a shooting at a school; it is a school shooting... So, what better way to combat this alarming list of school shootings than to redefine the term 'school shooting' itself? By doing this, according to gun-rights activists, you knock off, say, 59 of the 74 school shootings, leaving you with only 15 real, true, legitimate school shootings. [[MetaphoricallyTrue ONLY 15!]] That’s nothing. We can live with that, right? The sad thing is, media outlets are now using this new 'revised' number."''

->''"Do not allow others to dictate the debate by injecting their own politically correct language like: [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness higher order thinking skills, site-based management or gender norming]]. It's a smokescreen. Insist on using plain English in your debates."''

->''"This is why we can’t have nice things.\\\
No seriously, the biggest block there is to fixing the myriad of things wrong with everything in our society is the fact that a dedicated bloc of our populace reacts like winged howler monkeys whenever an ever-growing list of verboten words are invoked. As such, something like this which is literally the least anyone could do about the problems surrounding rape in [[strike:schools]] [[strike:this country]] ''the world'' is deemed instantly bad evil wrong and needs to be destroyed simply because it involves '[[StrawmanPolitical White House]]' '[[SlobsVersusSnobs college]]' and '[[SexIsEvil sexual]]'."''
-->--''Sadly, No!'' [[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/40017 rebuts]] Jonah Goldberg's "What War on Women?"

->''"'''freedom:''' A very simple, effective rebuttal for anyone that dares to attack our leaders policies. Additionally, this word [[MoralMyopia is a trademark of the leader.]]"''
-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

->''"In [[{{Eagleland}} America]], 99 percent of the money belongs to about 300 men. Those men are certain you want their money, and if you've ever wanted money for any reason, they're probably right. It's turned the rich into paranoid hoarders, and for some reason they pay FoxNews to tell us all about it... They refer to billionaires as 'job creators' instead of '[[CorruptCorporateExecutive human hunters]].' They call it a [[YouMayPanicNow War on Success]] if you apply basic economic theories to the financial crisis. And they accuse you of [[RedScare communism]] if you notice that any of this is retarded."''

-->--'''[[http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/11/multicultural-intersectional-its-not-your-daddys-kkk/ John Quiggin]]

->''"In the lexicon of [=UniversityofOregonese=], 'volunteers' can be 'assigned' work. As is so often the case, language betrays the power it’s meant to serve."''
-->--'''[[http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/22/scabs-scantrons-and-strikes-at-the-university-of-oregon/#more-34401 John Quiggin]]''

->'''Chris''': From there, we go to the White House to meet with Colonel William Stryker, played by the truly fantastic BrianCox.
->'''Matt''': Dude is top-shelf. Stryker’s in the Oval Office asking the president permission for a “special operation” and talking about “school reform.” In my experience, that is pitch-perfect bureaucratic talk.

-->--''RationalWiki''

->''"In [[{{Eagleland}} America]], 99 percent of the money belongs to about 300 men. Those men are certain you want their money, and if you've ever wanted money for any reason, they're probably right. It's turned the rich into paranoid hoarders, and for some reason they pay FoxNews to tell us all about it... They refer to billionaires as 'job creators' instead of '[[CorruptCorporateExecutive human hunters]].' They call it a [[YouMayPanicNow War on Success]] if you apply basic economic theories to the financial crisis. And they accuse you of [[DirtyCommies communism]] if you notice that any of this is retarded."''

->''"In [[{{Eagleland}} America]], 99 percent of the money belongs to about 300 men. Those men are certain you want their money, and if you've ever wanted money for any reason, they're probably right. It's turned the rich into paranoid hoarders, and for some reason they pay FoxNews to tell us all about it... They refer to billionaires as 'job creators' instead of '[[CorruptCorporateExecutive human hunters]].' They call it a War on Success if you apply [[CaptainObvious basic economic theories]] to the financial crisis. And they accuse you of [[DirtyCommies communism]] if you notice that any of this is retarded."''\\
--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-greatest-wars-ever-fought-by-fox-news/#ixzz31Fe6iebE "The 8 Greatest Wars Ever Fought by Fox News"]]

-->--'''Frank Luntz''' invokes PoesLaw

->''"Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: [[IRejectYourReality What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts]]. Of course, at the time, [[PoesLaw we thought we were being farcical]]."''

->''"Do not allow others to dictate the debate by injecting their own politically correct language like: higher order thinking skills, site-based management or gender norming. It's a smokescreen. Insist on using plain English in your debates. If your school is producing stupid children -- say so."''\\
--'''Tom [=DeWeese=]''', American education activist.

->''"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you [[StartXToStopX liberate a city by destroying it]]. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."''\\
-- '''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->''"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."''\\
--'''Toni Morrison'''

->''"For what it’s worth, a school shooting is defined by Wikipedia as 'an occurrence in which an individual discharges a gun and that incident takes place at an education institution.' This seems pretty straightforward. There is a shooting at a school; it is a school shooting... So, what better way to combat this alarming list of school shootings than to redefine the term 'school shooting' itself? By doing this, according to gun-rights activists, you knock off, say, 59 of the 74 school shootings, leaving you with only 15 real, true, legitimate school shootings. ONLY 15! That’s nothing. We can live with that, right? The sad thing is, media outlets are now using this new 'revised' number."''
-->--'''Matt Binder'''

->''"Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: [[IRejectYourReality What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts]]. Of course, at the time, [[PoesLaw we thought we were being farcical]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenColbert''', [[http://nymag.com/news/politics/22322/ 2006 New York Magazine interview]]

->''"Words are the new weapons; satellites, the new artillery."''
-->-- '''Elliot Carver''', ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

->''"Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, [[PoesLaw we thought we were being farcical]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenColbert'''

->''As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you [[StartXToStopX liberate a city by destroying it]]. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.''
-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal'''

-> Do not allow others to dictate the debate by injecting their own politically correct language like: higher order thinking skills, site-based management or gender norming. It's a smokescreen. Insist on using plain English in your debates. If your school is producing stupid children -- say so.
--> '''Tom [=DeWeese=]''', American education activist.

--> '''Tom [=DeWeese=]''', American education activist.