The Treachery of Images/Quotes

Winston: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brian: Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.
Winston: Does he exist in the same way as I exist?
O'Brian: You do not exist.

—Nineteen Eighty-Four

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

—Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

"Do you hear what I'm saying? If so, you'd better have your ears checked, because nobody said anything at all."

—Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.

"It takes a lot of intentional stupidity to be offended by an image rather than the behavior the image is portraying"

—Cynic_Ulex, Voat TL;DR of "Twitter Declare War on Magazine Cover Addressing Islamic Rape Crisis"