George Orwell became world famous for two works written in the last years of his life: the political allegory Animal Farm and the anti-utopian novel 1984, which depicts a totalitarian society.
successful quotes by george orwell
- “To tell the truth in a time of universal lies is extremism.”
- “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”
- “What views the masses hold and what they don’t hold is indifferent. They can be given intellectual freedom because they have no intelligence.”
- “Freedom is the ability to say two by two by four. If that is allowed, everything else follows from that.”
- “If you’re in the minority – and even in the singular – it doesn’t mean you’re crazy.”
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- “In any society, ordinary people must live in opposition to the existing order of things.”
- “He who controls the past controls the future; he who controls the present controls the past.”
- “Every writer who comes under the party banner is sooner or later faced with the choice of either submitting or shutting up.”
- “War is a way of shattering, of spraying into the stratosphere, of drowning in the abyss of the sea materials that might improve the people’s lives and thus ultimately make them smarter.”
- “In our society, those who are best informed about what is going on are the least able to see the world as it is. in general, the greater the understanding, the greater the illusions: the smarter the crazier.”
- “Absolutely white, like absolutely black, seems to be some kind of defect of vision.”
- “If everyone accepts the lies imposed by the party, if all the documents say the same thing, then the lie passes into history and becomes truth.”
- “The masses will never rise in protest until they become conscious. But it will never become conscious until it rises to protest.”
- “The power was to break the human spirit into pieces and glue them together in a new form of your own choosing.”
- “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
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- “They don’t just want to obey; they want to love the one who oppresses them.”
- “Truth is not an external fact. It is what the party commands.”
- “As long as man remains human, he will always strive for freedom.”
- “To know and not to know, to be conscious of absolute truthfulness while telling elaborate lies.”
- “If freedom means anything, it is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.”