As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
December 16, 2018
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.
Bertolt Brecht
December 16, 2018
Passing of the encryption legislation will ultimately make us less rather than more safe. The threat from the unrestrained power of morally corrupt politicians is the greatest risk to liberal society. History confirms that if a government can spy on its people it will.
Rod Bower
December 6, 2018
Before you decide to engage in a respectful exchange of views with a creationist, realise that the last intelligent, honest creationists died a century ago. What we see now are the dregs -- the folks who weren't clever enough to abandon the ship when it was sinking. Anyone who's still on that ship has either chosen to die on it or is trying to sublet their cabins to even dumber people, and they haven't noticed -- or are hoping others won't notice -- that the ship is, at this point, paradoxically, both underwater and on fire.
@TakeThatDarwin
December 1, 2018
It was Mark Twain who said “Only fiction has to be credible.” But The Australian satirists outdid Orwell with their editorial today headed “Turnbull moderates blow up a centrist government” A centrist government was blown up; in August and it wasn’t done by moderates.
Malcolm Turnbull
November 28, 2018
People who are out of work have done nothing wrong and deserve support, not poverty and scorn from a government full of wealthy and entitled people.
Michele O’Neill
October 2, 2018
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people and leads to corruption within the religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state, therefore is absolutely essential in a free society.
Thomas Jefferson
September 20, 2018
If the choice is between a god-bothering dog-whistler and a gender-whisperer, I’ll take the latter every time.
Arthur Baker
September 10, 2018
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard
August 6, 2018
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
