Only if we keep the rules - the rules that count - can we be free. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.4
The weightiest end of the cross that is laid upon you, lies upon your strong Saviour, for Isaiah says, 'In all your afflictions he is afflicted' Isaiah 63:9. O blessed Second who suffers with you!- Samuel Rutherford
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before, ~ John Owen@John_OwenQuotes
George Orwell in his famous 1984 novel was prophetic in his understanding of where society was heading. What he didn't see was that it would be so-called 'liberal' societies that would end up using the concept of hate speech as a form of control.
In his appendix to 1984 he explained how Newspeak worked: "The Purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings." - David Robertson, https://theweeflea.com/2019/05/20/i-hate-hate-speech/
“unless the lion learns to tell his own story, his history will always be written by the hunters”. - Chinua Achebe
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