Quotes from Orwell and Sudac

This is some sort of Orwellian time. Never until now has it been for a man easier to access publicity, to media, to newspapers, to television, to internet, to video games, and this and that. But never until now has it been so much of a LIE. So much of a concealed reality . . . otherwise a modified truth that is dangerous. That is something where the average man can lose his very self. That is something where I feel if I don't have the fundamentals in my heart, and if I don't have the grounded reality in my soul, then all of that can for me little by little drive me nuts to say the very least, and I lose it, I lose that foundation.

It isn't easy being a man. It isn't easy living today. Well, I think every era bears its burdens as well as its challenges as well as its advantages. I wouldn't like to be born in any other time besides in this one which I am living in, for its so challenging, and its so original. And its so totally this present reality that provokes me to change.
---Fr. Zlatko Sudac


“Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in DOUBLETHINK. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”

---George Orwell, 1984