14 Quotes by Thomas E Ricks

Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond.

For democracies to thrive, the majority must respect the rights of minorities to dissent, loudly.

Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill’s life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention.

Orwell saw that people might become slaves of the state, but he did not foresee that they might also become something else that would horrify him – products of corporations, data resources to be endlessly mined and peddled elsewhere.