FastSaying

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.


George Orwell

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
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 Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...
GEORGE ORWELL The rose revolution has evolved into a rose terror, designed to establish a dictatorship in the coun...
DAVID GAMKRELIDZE You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
G. K. CHESTERTON You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in or...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its ow...
GEORGE ORWELL When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
FIDEL CASTRO Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradi...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET These elections ... will put an end to the era of dictatorship by one party or faction in decision-m...
ABDEL ATWAN These elections ... will put an end to the era of dictatorship by one party or faction in decision-m...
ABDEL BARI ATWAN To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY Corporate America in general needs to establish Web sites in order to enhance their business prospec...
FREDERICK MORAN Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
ALBERT CAMUS In Russia a revolution has taken place, a peaceful one, but a revolution all the same.
IGOR SHABDURASULOV The permanent revolution, in the sense which Marx attached to this concept, means a revolution which...
LEON TROTSKY To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
ARTHUR HENDERSON With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life th...
NHAT HANH Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolution...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Russia has every opportunity to bring reforms to a successful finish and establish peace and order. ...
BORIS YELTSIN Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of...
CLAIRE MESSUD They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order
SUNDAY ADELAJA They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship a...
RAFAEL CORREA It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself...
WILHELM REICH Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...
NELSON MANDELA I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found mysel...
RAFAEL CRUZ You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, inte...
NOAM CHOMSKY We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of t...
SALVADOR DALI To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the m...
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effecti...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It is by fighting the discriminations of which young people are victims that we will re-establish or...
AZOUZ BEGAG It is by fighting the discriminations of which young people are victims that we will re-establish or...
AZOUZ BEGAG The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. -Albert Schweitzer.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER I led a people's revolution that was justified, ... Our revolution was one to bring about change.
CHARLES TAYLOR We shall establish an united Chinese Republic in order that all the peoples - Manchus, Mongols, Tibe...
SUN YAT-SEN He doesn't lead with a dictatorship. He walks the walk. In other words, what he says, he does.
ERV HATZENBUHLER If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of ...
PAULO FREIRE There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Was...
CARROLL QUIGLEY We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the ...
CHRIS SMITH The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The pen is one of the most potent of weapons in a revolution
RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN Since the call is made by a prominent Iraqi Muslim leader, Tehran accepts it in order to resolve pro...
ALI LARIJANI It was a dictatorship, not a democracy.
BOB HOLMES Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach ou...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI I wanted to reader to see the turmoil a company goes through in a starting phase. Particularly one l...
JIM CLARK Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. last dictatorship in Europe.
ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the la...
ETHAN ALLEN While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...
ETHAN ALLEN We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain a...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It's common to have close games. That's how the N.F.L. is. It's a balancing act. This is not just a ...
ANTONIO PIERCE The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
DOROTHY DAY We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insur...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
GARY ACKERMAN Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking d...
MATTHEW SYED The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppressi...
AYSHA TARYAM We must realize that todays Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere ...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS Carnegie Mellon's ... effort will, for the first time, establish a public-private partnership that w...
RICK SANTORUM Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
MARK POSTER To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you ...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this woul...
SUN YAT-SEN The Beijing municipal government and institutions in charge of tourism development will jointly esta...
YU PING Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictato...
ISMAIL KADARE The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all...
HERMAN CAIN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which i...
TSAKHIAGIIN ELBEGDORJ In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity....
AMBROSE BIERCE Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marx...
JOSE SARAMAGO Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Every revolution was thought first in one man's mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's denying the Castro dictatorship of the currency that it needs, of the money that it needs to su...
ROBERT MENENDEZ The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issu...
REBECCA SOLNIT Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be a...
YAIR LAPID The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art...
HAROLD ROSENBERG In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will in...
NHAT HANH The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. ...
JAY LEVINSON We're headed for a dictatorship.
BOB KELLEHER Red is a benevolent dictatorship.
JAMES JANNARD To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
ROBERT CASEY Fundamentally it is not (responsible) because it is a dictatorship.
CAO CHANGQING A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthro...
SUN YAT-SEN

More George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
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 When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL All animals are equalBut some animals are more equal than others
GEORGE ORWELL WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
GEORGE ORWELL So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that f...
GEORGE ORWELL Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was ...
GEORGE ORWELL In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL Lo que opinen o dejen de opinar las masas se considera falto de importancia. Se les puede conceder l...
GEORGE ORWELL Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that pres...
GEORGE ORWELL To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...
GEORGE ORWELL The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would yo...
GEORGE ORWELL During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is ...
GEORGE ORWELL Economically, no doubt, there are only two classes, the rich and the poor, but socially there is a w...
GEORGE ORWELL The thing that would astonish anyone coming for the first time into the service quarters of a hotel ...
GEORGE ORWELL A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayone...
GEORGE ORWELL Mr Wells
GEORGE ORWELL A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? ...
GEORGE ORWELL Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about t...
GEORGE ORWELL All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writ...
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
GEORGE ORWELL The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one'...
GEORGE ORWELL Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is...
GEORGE ORWELL All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...
GEORGE ORWELL Quien con­tro­la el pa­sa­do —decía la con­sig­na del Par­ti­do— con­tro­la el fu­tu...
GEORGE ORWELL Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me--
GEORGE ORWELL Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does h...
GEORGE ORWELL In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELL We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
GEORGE ORWELL He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their ...
GEORGE ORWELL War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELL Four legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELL The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but al...
GEORGE ORWELL The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted...
GEORGE ORWELL If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and a...
GEORGE ORWELL The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies ...
GEORGE ORWELL To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not...
GEORGE ORWELL Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
GEORGE ORWELL The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from ...
GEORGE ORWELL People have often said to me, 'Surely when you are with the tramps they don't really accept you as o...
GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to co...
GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
GEORGE ORWELL A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
GEORGE ORWELL Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good ac...
GEORGE ORWELL To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever wri...
GEORGE ORWELL Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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 For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or ...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to t...
GEORGE ORWELL To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
GEORGE ORWELL The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always...
GEORGE ORWELL History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
GEORGE ORWELL On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire ...
GEORGE ORWELL Power is not a means; it is an end....
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creat...
GEORGE ORWELL We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
GEORGE ORWELL One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the ...
GEORGE ORWELL Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
GEORGE ORWELL To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looki...
GEORGE ORWELL The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement...
GEORGE ORWELL To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi...
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...
GEORGE ORWELL Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by ...
GEORGE ORWELL By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
GEORGE ORWELL Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
GEORGE ORWELL You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those wh...
GEORGE ORWELL Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilise...
GEORGE ORWELL Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
GEORGE ORWELL Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quie...
GEORGE ORWELL Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ...
GEORGE ORWELL Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...
GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser th...
GEORGE ORWELL On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give ...
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