Hasta que no tengan conciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.
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GEORGE ORWELL The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's d...
GEORGE ORWELL We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent...
GEORGE ORWELL An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a goo...
GEORGE ORWELL As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents
GEORGE ORWELL Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...
GEORGE ORWELL Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the pow...
GEORGE ORWELL Insanity is my only means of relaxation
GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t...
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...
GEORGE ORWELL Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
GEORGE ORWELL A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
GEORGE ORWELL Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...
GEORGE ORWELL But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the ...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an app...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or th...
GEORGE ORWELL The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Lov...
GEORGE ORWELL The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one...
GEORGE ORWELL No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...
GEORGE ORWELL Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, a...
GEORGE ORWELL All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the futu...
GEORGE ORWELL Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
GEORGE ORWELL We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...
GEORGE ORWELL War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELL The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
GEORGE ORWELL Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
GEORGE ORWELL Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...
GEORGE ORWELL Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
GEORGE ORWELL As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
GEORGE ORWELL We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be...
GEORGE ORWELL Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improve...
GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which i...
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELL All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELL Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t...
GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...
GEORGE ORWELL For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story...
GEORGE ORWELL She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
GEORGE ORWELL The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
GEORGE ORWELL Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.
GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b...
GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte...
GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...
GEORGE ORWELL