Songs of innocence

Little lamb,

Here I am.

Come and lick,

my white neck.

Let me pull,

your soft wool.

Let me kiss,

your soft face

Merrily, Merrily we welcome in the year.

Spring, William Blake.

Big Brother is watching you

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell - 1984

1984

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree