2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
“Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.”
Cold Colors (p. 239)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
Protectionism: the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth, 1888, paragraph 155 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-protectionism-the-ism-which-teaches-that-waste-makes-wealth.
The evidence of worth may be read from the extent and character of attention and indignation. […] the U.S. media’s practical definitions of worth are political in the extreme and fit well the expectations of a propaganda model. While this differential treatment occurs on a large scale, the media, intellectuals, and public are able to remain unconscious of this fact and maintain a high moral and self-righteous tone. This is evidence of an extremely effective propaganda system. […] The worth of a victim Popieluszko [Polish priest] is valued at somewhere between 137 and 179 times that of a victim in the U.S. client states, or, looking at the matter in reverse, a priest murdered in Latin America is worth less than a hundredth of a priest murdered in Poland.
Source: Manufacturing Consent, with Noam Chomsky, 1988, pp. 37, 39.
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
“Victim of a crime? Thank a single mother.”
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (2009), p. 33
2009
“A Government with Heart who will protect our environment and heed the cries of Mother Nature.”
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
According to Reuters Fact Check team there is no evidence of the quotation in collections of Orwell’s works. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-orwell-quote-corrupt-idUSKCN2AT2W5
“Poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime.”
Robespierre: A Revolutionary life, p.43
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