Orwell Quotes

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by nightmares.But we had forgotten that alongside 's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: 's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, and did not prophesy the same thing. Warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in 's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history.

As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.What feared were those who would ban books. What feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Feared those who would deprive us of information. Feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Feared we would become a captive culture. Feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

As remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny ' failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In 1984, added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, feared that what we fear will ruin us. Feared that what we desire will ruin us.This book is about the possibility that, not, was right.”―Neil Postman. “Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men.

But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?”―George Orwell.

“He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.' White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother.

White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won.

Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power.

White always mates.”―George Orwell. “Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives.

But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty.

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Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation.

Not wholesome.The better and more realistic test would therefore seem to be: In what cause, or on what principle, would you risk your life?”―Christopher Hitchens.

. 'All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 1. 'THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol.

No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 2. 'The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be.

Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 3. 'I will work harder!' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 3.

'FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 3. 'It was given out that the animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.'

- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 4. 'I have no wish to take life, not even human life,' repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 4.

'Napoleon is always right.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 5. 'All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.'

- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 6. 'The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 6. 'They were always cold, and usually hungry as well.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch.

7. 'If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 7. 'They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.' Chapter 7.

'Some of the animals remembered - or thought they remembered - that the Sixth Commandment decreed, 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 8.

'Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out.' - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch.