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Quotes by John Pilger

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
– John Pilger
Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.
– John Pilger
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
– John Pilger
I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.
– John Pilger
If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.
– John Pilger
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
– John Pilger
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.
– John Pilger
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
– John Pilger
Nothing more vividly sums up the horrific situation in Iraq than what happened on Wednesday of this week when American helicopters attacked a wedding party in the west of Iraq killing 40 mostly women and children, a massacre. How long is the world going to stand for this? When I say the world I'm talking about civilized humanity.
– John Pilger
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
– John Pilger
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
– John Pilger
The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity.
– John Pilger
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
– John Pilger
There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.
– John Pilger
There are some pretty horrific states competing for that description of the world's greatest terrorist - the Russians in Chechnya, China in Tibet, and other states, but the United States because it is so vast and it's ambitions have been so worldwide, so encompassing . . . the trail of blood really is everywhere.
– John Pilger
Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington.
– John Pilger
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
– John Pilger
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
– John Pilger