George Orwell | Real power is achieved
"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."
"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."
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them."
"It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other."
Georg Orwell
"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done"… 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 highbrow periodicals."
"These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you."
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
George Orwell, 1984
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."