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Don't Believe The Lies T-Shirt. Media control: The Sun, The News of the World, The Daily Mail, The Express, The Mirror, The Telegraph, The Guardian, ad bloody infinitum. Lies, lies, lies. Don't swallow anyone else's agenda and the myth of a free press when it is completely controlled by vested interests.
Don't Believe The Lies T-Shirt
I'm The One The Daily Mail Warned You About T-Shirt. Are you an asylum seeker? An immigrant? A gypsy? A republican? Jewish? Homosexual? Bisexual? A socialist? An atheist? Perhaps your skin colour is a few shades darker than the accepted norm? Do you even, heaven forbid, hold liberal views? Then burn in hell for all eternity for the self-appointed voice of middle England has passed judgement on you.
I'm The One The Daily Mail Warned You About T-Shirt
Das Kapital Opening Lines T-Shirt. The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. The opening lines to Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, the treatise on political economy that caused all that trouble in the first place.
Das Kapital Opening Lines T-Shirt
Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt. Gonzo's premier exponent and gun-toting psychedelic genius, Hunter S Thompson, with his views on narcotics, firearms and mental instability: I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt
Lord What Fools These Mortals Be: Shakespeare Quote T-Shirt. Taken from Act 3 of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The mischievous Puck ridicules the foolish ways in which passions cause humans to act.
Lord What Fools These Mortals Be: Shakespeare Quote T-Shirt
The Apostrophe Protection Society T-Shirt. Dont you just hate it when people cant seem to get the hang of the humble apostrophe? Every week we see literally 100's of examples of it's improper use. Signs', book's and even newspapers' have been known to get it wrong. Its not bloody rocket science!<br> Use in the event of substituting a letter or letters (such as can't for can not), or in the possessive (except the possessive of it). Do not use for plurals. In the case of a possessive plural, the apostrophe goes after the s. Now write that out a hundred times.
The Apostrophe Protection Society T-Shirt
George Orwell Power Quote T-Shirt. George Orwell voices his mistrust for those who seek to engage in revolutionary activities in order to establish a position of authority: 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 Power Quote T-Shirt
Will Self T-Shirt. Modern-day literary icon Will Self, author of some of the finest modern satire including The Book of Dave and How the Dead Live.
Will Self T-Shirt
Doubleplusungood T-Shirt. times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling. The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in The Times of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-existent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.
Doubleplusungood T-Shirt
The Trial Opening Lines T-Shirt. The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the greatest pieces of dystopian literature. The protagonist, known only as Josef K., awakes to find himself trapped in a nightmare. He is arrested, but is unable to establish what he is accused of having done, or how he can go about proving his innocence. The famous opening line of the novel Someone must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong is used on this design along with an image of Kafka's Man at Table sketch.
The Trial Opening Lines T-Shirt
Oceania Is At War With Eastasia T-Shirt. Another t-shirt design inspired by George Orwell's 1984. Minitrue, the ministry of truth, brings you footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussain some years ago. Above it, the legend: Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Any reports to the contrary are mistaken.
Oceania Is At War With Eastasia T-Shirt
Allen Ginsberg T-Shirt. The original leader and spokesperson of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg: radical, nonconformist, free-speech activist, gay rights campaigner and poet. His image on this t-shirt is overlaid with the classic opening lines to his 1956 poem Howl: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
Allen Ginsberg T-Shirt
George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt. One of the greatest authors in British history, George Orwell a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. A hero of anyone struggling against tyranny, his philosophies on civil liberties, human rights and authority can be summed up nicely by the quote on this t-shirt design: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt
1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt. The classic opening lines to George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four: It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. In which Winston Smith questions the totalitarian system in which he lives. Big Brother is watching you.
1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt
One Hundred Percent Prole T-Shirt. And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat. There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator. There was even a whole sub-section -- Pornosec, it was called in Newspeak -- engaged in producing the lowest kind of pornography, which was sent out in sealed packets and which no Party member, other than those who worked on it, was permitted to look at.... If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!
One Hundred Percent Prole T-Shirt
40 is the Old Age of Youth... T-Shirt. 50 is the Youth of Old Age. OK, so we are all getting older. Grey hair, crows' feet, incessant aches and pains where once there were none. Perhaps you are even starting to grow your forehead? Whatever your situation, you can be guaranteed (well, sort of) to be cheered-up with these words of wisdom from the great Victor Hugo: forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age
40 is the Old Age of Youth... T-Shirt
Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt. Taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 Nihilist literary classic: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt
Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines for Aldoux Huxley's dystopian vision of the future: A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability.
Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt
The Catcher In The Rye Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines from JD Salinger's original ode to teen angst: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
The Catcher In The Rye Opening Lines T-Shirt
Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote; the 17th Century novel that many feel marked the beginning of modern literature: At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt
Robinson Crusoe Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel detailing the adventures of the famous shipwrecked sailor: I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.
Robinson Crusoe Opening Lines T-Shirt
Jane Austen's Persuasion Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines of Jane Austen's last published novel: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century - and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest that never failed - this was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester; by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a stillborn son, Nov. 5, 1789; Mary, born Nov. 20, 1791.
Jane Austen's Persuasion Opening Lines T-Shirt
Richard Dawkins Is God T-Shirt. Scourge of the folly of religion. Critic of creationism. Atheist. Humanist. Genius.
Richard Dawkins Is God T-Shirt
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster T-Shirt. The effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy also tells you on which planets the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are mixed, how much you can expect to pay for one and what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterwards.
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster T-Shirt
Patrick Bateman: American Psycho T-Shirt. Buff. Armani suit. Patent-leather slip-ons by Baker-Benjes. Silk Dunhill tie. Hand axe.
Patrick Bateman: American Psycho T-Shirt
Peter Cook T-Shirt. Classic British satirist who was the former proprietor of Private Eye and gave us, amongst many other things, Not Only... But Also.
Peter Cook T-Shirt
Oscar Wilde Within Their Means Quote T-Shirt. Great Victorian playwright and wit Oscar Wilde's quote which resonates loudly in today's debt-ridden society: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
Oscar Wilde "Within Their Means" Quote T-Shirt
This T-Shirt Intentionally Left Blank T-Shirt. The concept of the glorious juxtaposition of contradictory text (this page intentionally left blank) on no-longer blank page writ large on a t-shirt (or mug).
This T-Shirt Intentionally Left Blank T-Shirt
1984 War Is Peace T-Shirt. War Is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The three slogans of the party, mantra of our Dear Leader Big Brother. Drink your Victory Gin, read your Prolefeed and never, ever question anything. From one of the finest pieces of literature ever; George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece 1984.
1984 "War Is Peace" T-Shirt
Et Tu Brute T-Shirt. Shakespeare's take on Caesar's ultimate betrayal. You too, Brutus? Choose white or black print either on the front or, for extra poignancy, the back.
Et Tu Brute T-Shirt
Jack Kerouac Road To Heaven Quote T-Shirt. Taken from On The Road, Beat generation hero Kerouac's most famous work. Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven
Jack Kerouac "Road To Heaven" Quote T-Shirt
Spike Milligan I Told You I Was Ill T-Shirt. Author, comedian, Goon and scourge of Hitler and Muzak. The funniest person of the last 1000 years (according to a BBC poll), together with his epitaph: I told you I was ill.
Spike Milligan "I Told You I Was Ill" T-Shirt
Ford, You're Turning Into A Penguin. Stop It. T-Shirt. The effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy on Ford Prefect.
Ford, You're Turning Into A Penguin. Stop It. T-Shirt
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad T-Shirt. Propaganda straight from the pages of Animal Farm, this slogan was the mantra of the animals on George Orwell's Manor Farm. Features a pig in full combat dress carrying a rifle (and, ironically, stood on two legs).
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad T-Shirt
Ian Hislop T-Shirt. Esteemed Private Eye editor, Have I Got News For You panellist and the most sued man in English legal history (allegedly). Here with his quote on emerging from yet another legal hammering (this time at the hands of Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper): If this is justice, I'm a banana.
Ian Hislop T-Shirt
Hunter S Thompson: Andy Warhol Style T-Shirt. Hunter S Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and king of Gonzo journalism in the style of Andy Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe print.
Hunter S Thompson: Andy Warhol Style T-Shirt
42 T-Shirt. The ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything: 42. Just remember to pack your Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
42 T-Shirt
Don't Panic T-Shirt. ...first, it was slightly cheaper, and second, it had the words 'Don't Panic' emblazoned in large, friendly letters on its front... The famous cover text of the Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy in traditional Vogon yellow.
Don't Panic T-Shirt
George Orwell T-Shirt. George Orwell, a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. Author of some of the finest books of the 20th Century including Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalunia, The Road to Wigan Pier and, of course, his classic defence of English cooking.
George Orwell T-Shirt
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