All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
George Orwell
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George Orwell
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
George Orwell
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
George Orwell
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
George Orwell
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
George Orwell
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt…. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.
George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
George Orwell
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
George Orwell
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
George Orwell
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
George Orwell
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
George Orwell
It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
George Orwell
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
George Orwell
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George Orwell
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George Orwell
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
George Orwell
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past.” “He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell.
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. (Photo by: Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
George Orwell
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George Orwell
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
George Orwell
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
George Orwell
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
George Orwell
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
George Orwell
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt…. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.
George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
George Orwell
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
George Orwell
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
George Orwell
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
George Orwell
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
George Orwell
It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
George Orwell
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
George Orwell
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George Orwell
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George Orwell
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
George Orwell
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past.” “He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell.
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. (Photo by: Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)