Letters: Nov. 20, 2025

Does our MAGA leader agree?

“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything—anything—but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.”
George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell, 1984

““And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
George Orwell, 1984

“If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
George Orwell, 1984

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
George Orwell, 1984

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell, 1984

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Power is not a means; it is an end.”
George Orwell, 1984

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.” – George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and LondonFor after all, what is there behind it, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.”

George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.”
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Peter W. Johnson
Superior, Wisconsin