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code police ::: (By analogy with George Orwell's Thought Police in 1984) A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that might burst into one's office and arrest one anal-retentive weenies. Dike out that goto or the code police will get you! The ironic usage is perhaps more common.[Jargon File] (1994-12-08)
code police "humour" (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive {weenies}. "Dike out that {goto} or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08)
Orwell, George: Originally named Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell used a pseudonym for his published work. The English author and journalist was born in 1903 and died in 1950. His most renowned works include Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm, both of which comment upon dictatorships. See science fiction and dystopia.
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1:He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it. ~ George Orwell, #KEYS
2:Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
~ George Orwell, 1984,#KEYS
3:The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. ~ George Orwell, #KEYS
4:He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell, #KEYS
5:We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~ George Orwell,#KEYS
6:Jordan Peterson's Book List
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell
4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade
15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson,#KEYS
7:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. ~ George Orwell, 1984, #KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:He loved Big Brother. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 2:Weakness is strength. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 3:All art is propaganda. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 4:Napoleon is always right. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 5:Writing a novel is agony. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 6:Sanity is not statistical. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 7:Big Brother is watching you. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 8:Reality is inside the skull. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 9:Four legs good, two legs bad. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 10:Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 11:The object of power is power. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 12:Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 13:For the future. For the unborn. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 14:Poverty is spiritual halitosis. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 15:The object of powder is powder. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 16:No one is patriotic about taxes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 17:The belly comes before the soul. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 18:Four legs gooood, two legs baaad! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 19:Good writing is like a windowpane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 20:the mute protest in your own bones ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 21:Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 22:Power is not a means; it is an end. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 23:The more intelligent, the less sane ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 24:What happens to you here is forever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 25:Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 26:A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 27:To die hating them, that was freedom. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 28:Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 29:Happiness can only exist in acceptance. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 30:Rich people are poor people with money. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 31:The end was contained in the beginning. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 32:If there is hope, it lies in the proles. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 33:In the face of pain there are no heroes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 34:Serious sport is war minus the shooting. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 35:The heresy of heresies was common sense. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 36:Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 37:I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 38:You were the dead; theirs was the future. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 39:An earthquake is such fun when it is over. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 40:Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 41:A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 42:At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 43:The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 44:Using clich√©s is a substitute for thinking ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 45:What is not hereditary cannot be permanent. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 46:After 40, a man is responsible for his face. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 47:Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 48:All men are enemies. All animals are comrades ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 49:One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 50:The more men you've had, the more I love you. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 51:War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 52:He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 53:Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 54:Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 55:Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 56:Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 57:The fight against bad English is not frivolous. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 58:The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 59:There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 60:If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 61:I have no wish to take life, not even human life ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 62:Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 63:Never use a long word where a short one will do. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 64:The organizing principal for any culture is War. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 65:By revolution we become more ourselves, not less. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 66:It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 67:makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 68:The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 69:You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 70:Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 71:Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 72:Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 73:You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 74:Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 75:No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 76:Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 77:War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 78:When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 79:All human relationships must be purchased with money. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 80:Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 81:Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 82:We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 83:We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 84:If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 85:The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 86:We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 87:A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 88:Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 89:Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 90:One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 91:Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 92:I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 93:Man is the only creature that consumes without producing ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 94:The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 95:War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 96:& 97:Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 98:Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 99:He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 100:I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 101:Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 102:The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 103:If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 104:Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 105:Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 106:All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 107:Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 108:In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 109:The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 110:You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 111:Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 112:However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 113:The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 114:Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 115:He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 116:It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 117:Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 118:Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 119:The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 120:The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 121:The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 122:The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 123:My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 124:Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 125:Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 126:Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 127:Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 128:Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 129:The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 130:Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 131:It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 132:The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 133:To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 134:Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 135:International football is the continuation of war by other means. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 136:Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 137:Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 138:The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 139:The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 140:Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 141:He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 142:If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 143:The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 144:To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 145:All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 146:He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 147:Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me& 148:Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 149:All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 150:But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 151:Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 152:The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 153:Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 154:Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 155:The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 156:The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 157:There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 158:A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 159:Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 160:Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 161:So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 162:The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 163:We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 164:You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 165:Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 166:Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 167:To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 168:When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 169:A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 170:Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 171:I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 172:In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 173:It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 174:News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 175:The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 176:[... ] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 177:Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 178:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith as mysterious as faith itself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 179:True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 180:We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 181:Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 182:In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 183:It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 184:Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 185:The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 186:We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 187:A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 188:... every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 189:Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 190:Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 191:Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 192:The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 193:Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 194:As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 195:By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 196:The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 197:The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 198:It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 199:Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 200:To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 201:Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 202:You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 203:Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 204:I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 205:The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 206:Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 207:Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 208:In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 209:Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 210:If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 211:I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 212:Orthodoxy means not thinking& 213:Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 214:Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 215:As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 216:I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 217:Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 218:We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 219:Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 220:There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 221:To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 222:Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 223:One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 224:On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 225:It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 226:Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 227:The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 228:You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 229:All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 230:Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 231:Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 232:Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 233:From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 234:If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 235:No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 236:Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 237:The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 238:There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 239:The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 240:Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 241:Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 242:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 243:I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 244:There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 245:A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 246:History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 247:Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 248:Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 249:Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 250:There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 251:All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 252:And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 253:It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 254:Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 255:The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 256:There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word& 257:Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 258:Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 259:A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 260:For a creative writer possession of the & 261:History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 262:Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 263:Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 264:... the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 265:The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 266:There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 267:Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 268:Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on& 269:If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 270:If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 271:Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 272:Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 273:England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 274:Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 275:The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 276:The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 277:Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 278:If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 279:Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 280:The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 281:I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 282:Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 283:The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies & 284:We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 285:When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 286:In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 287:I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 288:To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 289:One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 290:Those who & 291:In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 292:The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 293:Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 294:One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 295:... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 296:But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 297:So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 298:The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 299:War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 300:If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 301:Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 302:The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 303:The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 304:The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 305:The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 306:All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 307:Despotic governments can stand & 308:In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 309:It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 310:Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 311:Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 312:To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 313:All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 314:I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 315:We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 316:His answer to every problem, every setback was I will work harder! îwhich he had adopted as his personal motto. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 317:No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 318:The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 319:A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 320:One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 321:All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 322:I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 323:The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 324:Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell! ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 325:I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 326:... men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 327:The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 328:But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 329:He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 330:If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 331:Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 332:The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 333:Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 334:It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 335:Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 336:Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 337:The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 338:This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 339:Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 340:Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 341:A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 342:All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 343:Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 344:Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 345:And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 346:Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 347:He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 348:A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 349:Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 350:. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 351:The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 352:It is brought home to you... that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 353:No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 354:We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 355:Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 356:Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 357:If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 358:The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 359:The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 360:The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 361:The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory... but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 362:Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 363:It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 364:England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 365:Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 366:Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 367:Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 368:The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 369:The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 370:But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 371:Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 372:The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 373:The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 374:When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 375:A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 376:One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 377:There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 378:At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 379:No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 380:Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 381:[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 382:Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 383:One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 384:Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 385:At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 386:Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 387:She's beautiful,' he murmured. & 388:The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 389:War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 390:Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 391:One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 392:Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 393:If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 394:In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 395:it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 396:The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 397:When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 398:A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 399:A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 400:If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 401:In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 402:Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 403:The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 404:they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 405:How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 406:If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 407:That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 408:The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 409:It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 410:It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 411:She was very young... she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 412:Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 413:The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 414:The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 415:Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 416:In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 417:It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 418:The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 419:We may be together for another six months a year there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 420:Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 421:The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 422:In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 423:It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 424:Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 425:What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 426:Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 427:Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 428:The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 429:The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 430:One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 431:Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 432:What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 433:Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, & 434:By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 435: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. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 436:The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 437:I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 438:[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 439:If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 440:Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 441:To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 442:What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 443:Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 444:I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 445:Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 446:Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 447:Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 448:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 449:Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 450:Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 451: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. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 452:Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 453:... the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 454:The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 455:The very word & 456:You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 457:Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 458:Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 459:Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 460:In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 461:How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 462:We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 463:[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 464:There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 465:Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 466:The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 467:We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 468:Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 469:There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 470:Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 471:We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 472:[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 473:The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 474:To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 475:As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 476:Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 477:Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 478:To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words... . Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 479:Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 480:You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 481:In our age there is no such thing as & 482:Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 483:The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 484:A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 485:Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 486:He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 487:By & 488:Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 489:I watched him [a & 490:He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 491:For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 492:The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 493:You asked me once,' said O'Brien, & 494:He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 495:It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 496:The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 497:And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 498:Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 499:The ruling power is always faced with the question, In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 500:Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:He loved Big Brother. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
2:Weakness is strength. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
3:All art is propaganda. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
4:Napoleon is always right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
5:Writing a novel is agony. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
6:Sanity is not statistical. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
7:Big Brother is Watching You. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
8:Big Brother is watching you. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
9:Reality is inside the skull. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
10:Four legs good, two legs bad. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
11:Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
12:The object of power is power. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
13:Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
14:For the future. For the unborn. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
15:Poverty is spiritual halitosis. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
16:The object of powder is powder. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
17:No one is patriotic about taxes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
18:The belly comes before the soul. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
19:Four legs gooood, two legs baaad! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
20:Good writing is like a windowpane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
21:the mute protest in your own bones ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
22:Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
23:Power is not a means; it is an end. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
24:The more intelligent, the less sane ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
25:What happens to you here is forever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
26:Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
27:A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
28:To die hating them, that was freedom. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
29:Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
30:Happiness can only exist in acceptance. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
31:Rich people are poor people with money. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
32:The end was contained in the beginning. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
33:If there is hope, it lies in the proles. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
34:In the face of pain there are no heroes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
35:Serious sport is war minus the shooting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
36:The heresy of heresies was common sense. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
37:Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
38:I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
39:You were the dead; theirs was the future. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
40:An earthquake is such fun when it is over. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
41:Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
42:Using clichés is a substitute for thinking ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
43:A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
44:At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
45:The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
46:What is not hereditary cannot be permanent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
47:After 40, a man is responsible for his face. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
48:Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
49:All men are enemies. All animals are comrades ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
50:One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
51:The more men you've had, the more I love you. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
52:War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
53:He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
54:He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
55:Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
56:Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
57:Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
58:Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
59:The fight against bad English is not frivolous. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
60:The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
61:There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
62:If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
63:I have no wish to take life, not even human life ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
64:Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
65:Never use a long word where a short one will do. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
66:The organizing principal for any culture is War. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
67:By revolution we become more ourselves, not less. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
68:It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
69:The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
70:You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
71:"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
72:Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
73:It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
74:Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
75:Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
76:You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
77:Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
78:No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
79:Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
80:War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
81:When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
82:All human relationships must be purchased with money. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
83:Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
84:Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
85:We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
86:We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
87:If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
88:The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
89:We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
90:A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
91:Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
92:Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
93:One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
94:Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
95:I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
96:Man is the only creature that consumes without producing ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
97:The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
98:War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
99:A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
100:Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
101:Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
102:Freedom is slavery,” wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
103:He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
104:I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
105:Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
106:The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
107:If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
108:Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
109:Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
110:All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
111:Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
112:In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
113:The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
114:You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
115:Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
116:However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
117:The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
118:Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
119:He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
120:In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
121:It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
122:Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
123:Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
124:The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
125:The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
126:The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
127:The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
128:My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
129:Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
130:Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-- ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
131:Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
132:Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
133:Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
134:Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
135:The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
136:Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
137:It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
138:The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
139:The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
140:To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
141:Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB
142:War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength. ~ George Orwell,#NFDB
143:Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
144:International football is the continuation of war by other means. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
145:Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
146:Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
147:The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
148:Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
149:He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
150:If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
151:The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
152:To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
153:All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
154:He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
155:Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
156:All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
157:But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
158:Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
159:The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
160:By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,’ wrote George Orwell, ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
161:Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
162:Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
163:The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
164:The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
165:There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
166:A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
167:Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
168:Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
169:So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
170:The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
171:We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
172:You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
173:Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
174:Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
175:To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
176:When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
177:A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
178:I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
179:[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
180:In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
181:It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
182:News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
183:Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
184:The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
185:Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
186:George Orwell avusese dreptate: unii vor fi întotdeauna mai egali decît alţii. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
187:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
188:Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
~ George Orwell, 1984,#NFDB
189:True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
190:We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
191:Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
192:...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
193:In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
194:It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
195:Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
196:The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
197:We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
198:A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
199:Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
200:Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
201:Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
202:The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
203:Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
204:As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
205:By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
206:Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
207:The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
208:The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
209:It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
210:Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
211:The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
212:To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
213:Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
214:You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
215:Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
216:I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
217:The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
218:To see what is in front of your face,” wrote George Orwell, “is a constant struggle. ~ Megan McArdle, #NFDB
219:Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
220:Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
221:In a time of universal deceit—telling the truth is a revolutionary act. —George Orwell ~ Andrew Watts, #NFDB
222:In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
223:Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
224:If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
225:If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
226:I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
227:Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
228:Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
229:As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
230:I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
231:Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
232:We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
233:George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
234:Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
235:There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
236:To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
237:Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
238:One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
239:On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
240:It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
241:Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
242:There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
243:The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
244:You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
245:All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
246:Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
247:For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
248:Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
249:Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
250:From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
251:If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
252:No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
253:Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
254:The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
255:There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
256:The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
257:Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
258:Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
259:Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
260:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
261:I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
262:There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
263:A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
264:History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
265:Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
266:Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
267:Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
268:There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
269:To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. —George Orwell ~ S A Bodeen, #NFDB
270:All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
271:And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
272:It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
273:Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
274:The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
275:The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
276:Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
277:Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
278:The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
279:...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
280:A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
281:History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
282:Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
283:Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
284:The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
285:There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
286:Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
287:If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
288:If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
289:Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
290:Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
291:All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. —George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945 ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
292:Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
293:Don’t you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell, ~ Lawrence Freedman, #NFDB
294:England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
295:En una época de engaño universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un acto revolucionario. George Orwell ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
296:have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion. —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938 ~ Randy Wayne White, #NFDB
297:Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
298:The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
299:The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
300:As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
301:Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
302:George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
303:If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
304:Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
305:The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
306:George Orwell first noted, the true genius in advertising is to sell you the solution and the problem. ~ Ben Goldacre, #NFDB
307:I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
308:Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
309:We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
310:George Orwell said. He stated, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ L A Marzulli, #NFDB
311:When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
312:Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
313:In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
314:I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
315:To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
316:One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
317:We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~ George Orwell,#NFDB
318:In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
319:The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
320:... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
321:Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
322:He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
323:One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
324:But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
325:So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
326:The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
327:War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
328:If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
329:I still wanted to believe George Orwell’s admonition that people are always better than we think they are. ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
330:Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
331:The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
332:The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
333:The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
334:The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
335:All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
336:In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
337:It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
338:Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
339:Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
340:To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
341:All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
342:I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
343:The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —George Orwell ~ Erec Stebbins, #NFDB
344:We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
345:No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
346:The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
347:A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
348:George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
349:He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. —GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
350:Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations” - George Orwell ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
351:One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
352:All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
353:His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
354:I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
355:In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues. GEORGE ORWELL, 1946 ~ Nick Cohen, #NFDB
356:...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
357:The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
358:Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell! ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
359:I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
360:The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
361:But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
362:He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
363:If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
364:Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
365:The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
366:Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
367:Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
368:It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
369:Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
370:Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
371:The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
372:This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
373:As George Orwell wrote in his book 1984, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
374:Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
375:Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
376:A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
377:All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
378:Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
379:Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
380:And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
381:Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
382:He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
383:A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
384:Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
385:. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
386:It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
387:The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
388:WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four ~ Stanley Bing, #NFDB
389:No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
390:People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell ~ Brad Thor, #NFDB
391:We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
392:Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
393:George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. ~ Arthur Levitt Jr, #NFDB
394:Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
395:George Orwell lo escribió en su libro 1984: “En un tiempo de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
396:Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
397:The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
398:If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
399:The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
400:The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
401:She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
402:The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
403:Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
404:It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
405:England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
406:Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
407:Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
408:The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
409:Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
410:The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
411:But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
412:Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
413:Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
414:The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
415:The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
416:We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.’ —George Orwell ~ Conn Iggulden, #NFDB
417:When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
418:A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
419:One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
420:There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
421:Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
422:Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
423:At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
424:No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
425:[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
426:From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
427:Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
428:About these developments George Orwell, in , #NFDB
429:About these developments George Orwell, in , #NFDB
430:Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
431:One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
432:Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell, 1984 ~ Boston T Party, #NFDB
433:War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
434:At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
435:Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
436:The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
437:Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
438:One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
439:People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” —George Orwell ~ Bathroom Readers Institute, #NFDB
440:Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
441:If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
442:In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
443:it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
444:The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
445:When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
446:A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
447:A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
448:If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
449:In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
450:Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
451:The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
452:they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
453:How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
454:If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
455:She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
456:That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
457:The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
458:Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell. ~ Doug Dandridge, #NFDB
459:It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
460:It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
461:Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
462:The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
463:The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
464:Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
465:In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
466:It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
467:The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
468:We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
469:Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
470:Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
471:The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
472:In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
473:It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
474:Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
475:What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
476:Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
477:Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
478:The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
479:The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
480:Jura is also known as the place where George Orwell wrote 1984. Orwell rented a small house on the northern end of the island, really the middle of nowhere, ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
481:One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
482:Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
483:What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
484:By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
485: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. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
486:The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
487:Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
488:I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
489:Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
490:We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —Winston Churchill (or George Orwell) ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
491:[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
492:The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
493:If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
494:Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
495:To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
496:What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
497:Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
498:I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
499:Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
500:Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
501:Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
502:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
503:Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
504:Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
505:George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ~ Christopher Lasch, #NFDB
506:...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
507: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. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
508:Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
509:It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are. —GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
510:The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
511:You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
512:Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
513:Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
514:Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
515:In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
516:Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
517:For example, at Wigan Pier, later to be made famous by George Orwell, women formed just 5.5 percent of the work force. Of them, not a single one worked underground.[355] ~ Martin van Creveld, #NFDB
518:How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
519:We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
520:By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
521:[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
522:I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
523:There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
524:When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
525:Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
526:The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
527:We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
528:Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
529:In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
530:There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
531:Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
532:We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
533:[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
534:Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
535:The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
536:To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
537:To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
538:As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
539:Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
540:George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
541:Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
542:You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
543:It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
544:You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
545:George Orwell was skeptical of this approach: “Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has a toothache and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having a toothache. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
546:Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
547:The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
548:The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
549:A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
550:Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
551:He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
552:Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
553:He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
554:If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
555:For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
556:The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
557:He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
558:It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
559:As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty' ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
560:Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” —George Orwell ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
561:The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
562:And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
563:Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
564:Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
565:Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
566:The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
567:England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
568:Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
569: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. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
570:To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
571:Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
572:If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
573:So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
574:Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
575:It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
576:The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
577:Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
578:Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
579:During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
580:Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
581:I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
582:The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
583:The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
584:Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including “never use a long word where a short one will do” and “never use the passive where you can use the active. ~ Philip E Tetlock, #NFDB
585:This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
586:In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
587:Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
588:He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
589:Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
590:The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
591:Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
592:Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
593:Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully, ~ Madeleine K Albright, #NFDB
594:In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
595:Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
596:Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
597:The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
598:In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
599:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
600:To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
601:In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
602:People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
603:Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
604:By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
605:They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
606:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
607:Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
608:The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
609:We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
610:The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
611:If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
612:All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
613:I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
614:The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
615:How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
616:If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
617:The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, and that one is prepared in the end, to be defeated, and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
618:They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
619:High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
620:If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
621:They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
622:All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
623:The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
624:People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
625:It was given out that the animals there practised 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, #NFDB
626:What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
627:Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
628:When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
629:George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'. ~ Gideon Haigh, #NFDB
630:Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
631:Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
632:The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
633:Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
634:No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
635:It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
636:I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
637:Kevin nació en 1984… Un año muy temido, como recordarás; y, aunque yo me burlaba mucho de todos aquellos que se tomaban en serio la arbitraria elección de George Orwell para título de su obra, esa fecha marcó para mí el inicio de una tiranía. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
638:For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
639:He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
640:Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
641:When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
642:George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
643:I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
644:The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
645:But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
646:One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
647:Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
648: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, #NFDB
649:It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
650:Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
651:On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
652:And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
653:Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
654:And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
655:A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
656:It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
657:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell in "Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)., #NFDB
658:The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle? ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
659:During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
660:In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
661:The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
662:I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
663:The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
664:Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
665:There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
666:To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
667:Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien’s philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the “smelly little orthodoxies” of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other words, it is like the healing herb athelas (see LOTR, p. 193). ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
668:It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
669:La guerra es una manera de pulverizar o de hundir en el fondo del mar los materiales que en la paz constante podrían emplearse para que las masas gozaran de excesiva comodidad y, con ello, se hicieran a la larga demasiado inteligentes. ========== 1984 (GEORGE ORWELL) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
670:Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
671:No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
672:I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
673:I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
674:It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
675:The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
676:World War II destroyed more books and libraries than any event in human history. The Nazis alone destroyed an estimated hundred million books during their twelve years in power. Book burning was, as author George Orwell remarked, “the most characteristic [Nazi] activity. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
677:People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
678:The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
679:People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
680:The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
681:It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
682:His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
683:Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
684:The Seven Commandments: 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, #NFDB
685:Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
686:There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
687:The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
688:I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
689:For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
690:In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
691:It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
692:In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
693:If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
694:I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
695:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
696:From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
697:The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
698:We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
699:You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
700:There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
701:The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
702:[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
703:It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
704:As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
705:The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
706:No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
707:The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
708:The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
709:All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
710:If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
711:A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? GEORGE ORWELL, “POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
712:In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
713:The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
714:The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
715:The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. —GEORGE ORWELL, “POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,” 1946 ~ Rashid Khalidi, #NFDB
716:Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
717:For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
718:Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school. ~ John Major, #NFDB
719:Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
720:Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
721:To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
722:We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
723:Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
724:A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
725:You can load your own documents onto your Kindle, but Amazon is able to delete books it has already sold you. In 2009, Amazon automatically deleted some editions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from users’ Kindles because of a copyright issue. I know, you just couldn’t write this stuff any more ironically. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
726:Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
727:Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
728:For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
729:We now find ourselves very much concerned with something we call “post-truth,” and we tend to think that its scorn of everyday facts and its construction of alternative realities is something new or postmodern. Yet there is little here that George Orwell did not capture seven decades ago in his notion of “doublethink. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
730:Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
731:... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
732:From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
733:...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
734:I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
735:She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
736:It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
737:But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
738:The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
739:To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
740:A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
741:Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
742:Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. You never have to starve. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
743:George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. Well, the solution to our stress and anxiety is right there in front of our noses, and we’re too busy watching porn and advertisements for ab machines that don’t work, wondering why we’re not banging a hot blonde with a rocking six-pack, to notice. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
744:The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
745:Trump pointedly refused to condemn endorsements from a white supremacist and former KKK leader, but that can dissolve into hazy memory when he’s speaking with an African American pastor. George Orwell said seeing what’s in front of your nose demands a constant struggle. It’s also a constant struggle to recall what’s in the back of your mind. ~ Katy Tur, #NFDB
746:The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
747:Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
748:All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
749:In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
750:The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
751:A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
752:The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
753:The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
754:If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
755:Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
756:I do not think the British want to become America's "Airstrip One," as the British Isles are called in George Orwell's "1984." The EU's internal market was a massive success even before the UK joined it, and it joined because there was no real alternative. So while British tabloids are expecting to be punished by Germany, Brexit is punishment in itself. ~ Anthony Glees, #NFDB
757:Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
758:George Orwell observed: ‘If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole … the ordinary town proletariat, the people who make the wheels go round, have always been ignored by novelists. When they do find their way between the corners of a book, it is nearly always as objects of pity or as comic relief.’2 ~ Owen Jones, #NFDB
759:Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
760:There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
761:Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
762:I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
763:Je n'ai jamais compris comment les guerres pouvaient faire tant de morts quand les chocs frontaux y sont finalement si rares. Je n'ai jamais plus admiré un récit de guerre qu'Hommage à la Catalogne de George Orwell parce qu'il raconte, justement, cette loi de l'attente et de la patience qui est la loi no 1 des combattants. (ch. 12
Les mots de la guerre) ~ Bernard Henri L vy,#NFDB
764:My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past to fit whatever view she currently wishes to promote, much like the history changers in George Orwell's 1984. She now knows very little about me, but makes up stories so as to seem closer to me than she truly is. It gains her more attention. ~ Damien Echols, #NFDB
765:When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
766:For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
767:The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
768:As George Orwell noted in 1946, “A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, and then fall 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. ~ Susan Jacoby, #NFDB
769:In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
770:Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
771:Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
772:Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
773:you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
774:Totalitarianism of a certain kind, as imagined by Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, is therefore impossible. What the totalitarian project will always produce will be a kind of rigidity and inefficiency which may contribute in the long run to its defeat. We need to remember however the voices from Auschwitz and Gulag Archipelago which tell us just how long that long run is. ~ Alasdair MacIntyre, #NFDB
775:It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
776:What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
777:The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
778:When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
779:But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
780:A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
781:It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!". ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
782:The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
783:The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
784:We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell, 1946 ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
785:We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946) ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
786:In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened." ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
787:Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
788:The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
789:Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
790:On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
791:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
792:Good fiction always begins with story
and progresses to theme; it almost never begins with theme
and progresses to story. The only possible exceptions to this
rule that I can think of are allegories like George Orwell’s
Animal Farm (and I have a sneaking suspicion that with Animal
Farm the story idea may indeed have come first; if I see
Orwell in the afterlife, I mean to ask him). ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
793:He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
794:The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir' ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
795:I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
796:I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
797:The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
798:A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
799:Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
800:He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
801:They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
802:And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
803:The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
804:The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. ~ George Orwell in "Why I Write", Gangrel (Summer 1946)., #NFDB
805:The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
806:I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
807:A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
808:When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
809:Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
810:For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
811:To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
812:Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
813:Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
814:The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
815:All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
816:Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
817:The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
818:During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
819:Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
820:Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience. ~ Aldous Huxley, letter to George Orwell (Smith, Grover (1969). Letters of Aldous Huxley. Chatto & Windus)., #NFDB
821:When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
822:The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
823:Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
824:There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
825:North Koreans have two stories running in their heads at all times, like trains on parallel tracks. One is what you are taught to believe; the other is what you see with your own eyes. It wasn’t until I escaped to South Korea and read a translation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that I found a word for this peculiar condition: doublethink. This is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time—and somehow not go crazy. This ~ Yeonmi Park, #NFDB
826:While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
827:George Orwell dijo que ver lo que tienes frente a tu nariz requiere un esfuerzo constante. Bien, pues la solución a nuestro estrés y nuestra ansiedad se halla justo enfrente de nuestras narices, pero estamos demasiado ocupados viendo pornografía y publicidad sobre máquinas para hacer abdominales que no funcionan y preguntándonos por qué no tenemos una rubia preciosa en la cama esperando acariciar nuestro magnífico y bien marcado torso, como para darnos cuenta. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
828:The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
829:The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
830:But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
831:At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... 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 high-brow periodicals. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
832:(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry. ~ George Will, #NFDB
833:In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell describes the relationship between language abuse and political abuse, how corrupt leaders use the passive voice to obscure unspeakable truths and shroud responsibility for their actions. They say, “It must be admitted, now that the report has been reviewed, that mistakes were made,” rather than, “I read the report, and I admit I made a mistake.” Here’s a life tool: always apologize in the active voice. ~ Roy Peter Clark, #NFDB
834:When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
835:The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
836:It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
837:We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
838:In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
839:If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
840:In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
841:Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
842:It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
843:There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
844:So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...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, #NFDB
845:You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
846:England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
847:Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
848:Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
849:The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
850:Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
851:The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
852:when both can’t be true. In 1946, in the days after World War II, presidential advisor Bernard Baruch said, “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” Variations have been uttered by U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and others. Today this seemingly indisputable truth no longer holds. Propaganda is indistinguishable from fact and we find ourselves living in the frightening pages of a George Orwell novel. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
853:In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
854:It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
855:In short, “fascist” is a modern word for “heretic,” branding an individual worthy of excommunication from the body politic. The left uses other words—“racist,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “christianist”—for similar purposes, but these words have less elastic meanings. Fascism, however, is the gift that keeps on giving. George Orwell noted this tendency as early as 1946 in his famous essay “Politics and the English Language”: “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
856:Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
857: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, #NFDB
858:The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
859:By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
860:George Orwell introduced the dictator Big Brother in his novel 1984, as I’m sure you know. The book was an allegorical treatment of Stalinism, of course. And ever since then, the term ‘Big Brother’ has functioned as a social icon. That was Orwell’s great accomplishment. But now, in the real year 1984, Big Brother is all too famous, and all too obvious. If Big Brother were to appear before us now, we’d point to him and say, ‘Watch out! He’s Big Brother!’ There’s no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
861:There was a lot of downtime sitting by Mike, so I read. I had a little table on which I had my pile of books and, by the end, they were nearly as high as the studio ceiling. I used to get all the song titles from them. Even the album titles, as it turned out, because ‘A startling tale of power, corruption and lies’ was a review quote from the Daily Telegraph on the back of 1984 by George Orwell. ‘Leave Me Alone’ came from Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and ‘Ultraviolence’ was from A Clockwork Orange, to name but a few. ~ Peter Hook, #NFDB
862:These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
863:Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
864:I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
865:George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that a lot of people just believe anything you tell them, and no matter what it is, they just go along with the program. They're perfectly happy to take their pill every day and do what they're told, and work and buy things, and work and buy things, and stay out of any complex emotional situations. And whatever the authorities tell them to do, they do, and whatever the authorities say is the truth, they believe is the truth. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
866:Love hasn't got anything to do with the heart, the heart's a disgusting organ, a sort of pump full of blood. Love is primarily concerned with the lungs. People shouldn't say "she's broken my heart" but "she's stifled my lungs." Lungs are the most romantic organs: lovers and artists always contract tuberculosis. It's not a coincidence that Chekhov, Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Chopin, George Orwell and St Thérèse of Lisieux all died of it; as for Camus, Moravia, Boudard and Katherine Mansfield, would they have written the same books if it werent for TB? ~ Fr d ric Beigbeder, #NFDB
867:All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
868:What little I knew of the city was that three decades before, in the name of the Spanish Republic, it had resisted General Franco (1892-1975) and paid a heavy, bitter price for it; that George Orwell, one of my literary heroes, had written a book about it called Homage to Catalonia; that in that book he had got most things right, but had been spectacularly wrong in dissing the admittedly very peculiar Antoni Gaudí, claimed by the French surrealists, who had designed that enormous penitential church seemingly made of melted candle wax and chicken guts. ~ Robert Hughes, #NFDB
869:You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
870:In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
871:A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
872:Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
873:It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
874:Among the writers he was reading when he wrote these stories in the 1950s—and he was reading all the time, all kinds of books, dozens and dozens of them—were David Riesman, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Randall Jarrell, Sigmund Freud, Paul Goodman, William Styron, C. Wright Mills, Martin Buber, George Orwell, Suzanne Langer, F. R. Leavis, David Daiches, Edmund Wilson, Alfred Kazin, Ralph Ellison, Erich Fromm, Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, Sean O’Casey, e. e. cummings—who collectively represented a republic of discourse in which he aspired to ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
875:Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
876:The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
877:[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
878:Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
879:Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
880:Those who neglect the roots of order, one may add, are compelled to water those roots desperately—after wandering in the parched wasteland of disorder. Upon our knowledge of those roots may depend what sort of order America and the world will have by the end of this century. It may be the order of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, rich and dehumanized; it may be the garrison-state controlled by ferocious ideology, as in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four; or it may be an order renewed and improved, yet recognizably linked with the order that arose in Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London. ~ Russell Kirk, #NFDB
881:Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
882:Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the Clash, and the Beatles, and Jarvis Cocker, and the white cliffs of Dover, and Big Bend, and the West End, and Stonehenge, and Alton Towers, and the Last Night of the Proms, and Glastonbury, and William Hogarth, and William Blake, and Just William, and Winston Churchill, and the North Circular Road, and Grodzinski's for coffee, and rubbish, and potholes, and a slice of Stilton and a pickled onion, and George Orwell. And Gloria, of course. He was almost home to Gloria. G-L-O-R-I-A. ~ Ian Sansom, #NFDB
883:Writing about Gandhi’s belief that the victims of Nazism should arouse the conscience of the world by passively protesting, a sympathetic George Orwell said that Gandhi did not understand the impossibility of protest in totalitarian states. ‘It is difficult to see how Gandhi’s methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not only to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. ~ Nick Cohen, #NFDB
884:I do not speak in German, I speak in contexts; therefore, my words ought not to be loosen away from the invisible strings to which they have been attached whether by me or by the original meanings from the corresponding languages whence each word stemmed. Obviously, I do not agree with the conviction that the German language has transcended through materializing those inconspicuous threads into the structures of the words and sentences, I rather consider George Orwell's observation as remarkable and surpassingly valid. Hence, the semantics of my own text are only to be found within my own Quotery Lexicon. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
885:Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language—so the argument runs—must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. —George Orwell, 1946 ~ Phil Simon, #NFDB
886:Old George Orwell got it backward.Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
887:As George Orwell noted in 1946, “A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, and then fall 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.” 2 In this continuous blurring of clarity and intellectual discrimination, political speech is always ahead of the curve—especially because today’s media possess the power to amplify and spread error with an efficiency that might have astonished even Orwell. ~ Susan Jacoby, #NFDB
888:North Koreans have two stories running in their heads at all times, like trains on parallel tracks. One is what you are taught to believe; the other is what you see with your own eyes. It wasn’t until I escaped to South Korea and read a translation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that I found a word for this peculiar condition: doublethink. This is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time—and somehow not go crazy. This “doublethink” is how you can shout slogans denouncing capitalism in the morning, then browse through the market in the afternoon to buy smuggled South Korean cosmetics. ~ Yeonmi Park, #NFDB
889:Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves. For Trump, as with so much he does, it’s about simple dominance. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
890:The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
891:When will the dropping of bombs on innocent civilians by the United States, and invading and occupying their country, without their country attacking or threatening the US, become completely discredited? When will the use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs and CIA torture renditions become things that even men like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld will be too embarrassed to defend? Australian/British journalist John Pilger has noted that in George Orwell’s 1984 ‘three slogans dominate society: war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Today’s slogan, war on terrorism, also reverses meaning. The war is terrorism. ~ William Blum, #NFDB
892:Nobody has made the point better than George Orwell in his translation into modern bureaucratic fuzz of this famous verse from Ecclesiastes: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Orwell’s version goes: Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
893:Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz (1953); “The Power of the Powerless” by Václav Havel (1978); “How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist” by Leszek Kołakowski (1978); The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash (1989); The Burden of Responsibility by Tony Judt (1998); Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning (1992); and Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (2014). ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
894:Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz (1953); “The Power of the Powerless” by Václav Havel (1978); “How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist” by Leszek Kołakowski (1978); The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash (1989); The Burden of Responsibility by Tony Judt (1998); Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning (1992); and Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (2014). Christians ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
895:Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand path is about consciously breaking with a ‘sleepwalker orthodoxy’ to be able to act as a fully awaken and conscious individual. In her book, George Orwell (1984) is quoted: “Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” At the same time she notes that the left-hand path is the ‘way of action’. It is not about intellectual contemplation, or worse, just reading about action.'
About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger from: Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background
and role within new Western religiosity, University of Stockholm, 2004 ~ Zeena Schreck,#NFDB
896:In selling the War on Iraq, it became important to stress that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons, and equally important to avoid the fact that he had done so with U.S. assistance. George Orwell wrote in 1948, “Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side.…The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”1 ~ David Swanson, #NFDB
897:At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past. In his novel, George Orwell depicted the future as a dark society dominated by totalitarianism. People are rigidly controlled by a dictator named Big Brother. Information is restricted, and history is constantly being rewritten. The protagonist works in a government office, and I'm pretty sure his job is to rewrite words. Whenever a new history is written, the old histories all have to be thrown out. In the process, words are remade, and the meanings of current words are damaged. What with history being rewritten so often, nobody knows what is true anymore. They lose track of who is an enemy and who an ally. It's that kind of story. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
898:Far from merely being a larger England, the United States had become something quite different: an incubator of lost or diluted British freedoms. As the Liberty Bell was originally cast in England but rang out in America, so those guarantees of the 'rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects' have found their truest expression across the Atlantic. 'That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy,' wrote George Orwell in 1941. 'It is our job to see that it stays there.' In Britain and beyond, that rifle has long been taken away. England’s bell has fallen silent. Americans would do well to ensure that the crack in theirs grows no larger. ~ Charles C W Cooke, #NFDB
899:George Orwell’ın 1984 kitabında ‘newspeak’ diye bir terim var, “yeni dil”. Şimdi “Yeni Türkiye” diyorlar ya… Yeni Türkiye, eski Türkiye; bunlar tamamen kurgulanmış “yeni dil”in malzemeleri. Bu yeni kurgu dil, bütün bildik kavramları altüst etmiş vaziyette. Medya ve propaganda yoluyla bunları insanların zihnine zerk ediyorlar. Yeni Türkiye’deyiz falan diyorlar ki bu tamamen uydurma bir şey. Yeni Türkiye’ye geçtik, siz bu yeni Türkiye’ye intibak edemiyorsunuz falan diyorlar. Oysa Türkiye hâlâ o bildik eski Türkiye, sadece aktörleri değişti. Bu kavrama benzer, tamamen yeni döneme özgü, kendilerini ikna ettikleri bir söylem var ve bu dilden konuşuyorlar. Ve bu dilin gerçek dünyada bir karşılığı yok. Sadece onların zihin dünyasında bir karşılığı var. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
900:Jordan Peterson's Book List
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell
4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade
15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson,#NFDB
901:Blood is thicker than water—and many see something ridiculous, or worse, about anyone who doesn’t know this. In his discussion of Gandhi’s autobiography, George Orwell expresses admiration for Gandhi’s courage but is repelled by Gandhi’s rejection of special relationships—of friends and family, of sexual and romantic love. Orwell describes this as “inhuman,” and goes on to say: “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.” To ~ Paul Bloom, #NFDB
902:That Hitchens represents a grievous loss to the left is beyond doubt. He is a superb writer, superior in wit and elegance to his hero George Orwell, and an unstanchably eloquent speaker. He has an insatiable curiosity about the modern world and an encyclopaedic knowledge of it, as well as an unflagging fascination with himself. Through getting to know all the right people, an instinct as inbuilt as his pancreas, he could tell you without missing a beat whom best to consult in Rabat about education policy in the Atlas Mountains. The same instinct leads to chummy lunches with Bill Deedes and Peregrine Worsthorne. In his younger days, he was not averse to dining with repulsive fat cats while giving them a piece of his political mind. Nowadays, one imagines, he just dines with repulsive fat cats. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
903:People settle by acquiring a first-person plural – a place, a community and a way of life that is ‘ours’. The need for this ‘we’ is not accepted by internationalists, by revolutionary socialists, or by intellectuals wedded to the Enlightenment’s timeless, placeless vision of the ideal community. But it is a fact, and indeed the primary fact from which all community and all politics begin. George Orwell noticed this, during the course of the Second World War. The disloyalty of the left intelligentsia was, for Orwell, all the more evident and all the more shocking, when set beside the simple, dogged ‘we’ of the ordinary people. And the real political choice, about which Orwell had no hesitation, was whether to join the intellectuals in their work of destruction, or to stand by the ordinary people in defending their country in its hour of need. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
904:Hoàn toàn chính xác. Fukada muốn tìm kiếm một Utopia(4) ở hệ thống Takashami này,” Thầy giáo nói với nét mặt không vui, “Không cần nói cũng biết, trên thế giới này không hề tồn tại những thứ kiểu như thế, cũng giống như thuật giả kim và động cơ vĩnh cửu vậy. Nếu cho phép tôi nói thì xin thưa rằng những gì cộng đồng Takashima ấy thực hiện kỳ thực là nhằm tạo ra những người máy không biết suy nghĩ. Cắt đứt khả năng tự tư duy của con người. Chẳng khác nào thế giới mà George Orwell mô tả trong tiểu thuyết của ông ấy. Nhưng có lẽ cậu cũng biết, trên đời này vẫn còn rất nhiều kẻ một lòng theo đuổi trạng thái chết não ấy. Vì làm như vậy sẽ dễ dàng hơn. Không cần phải nghĩ ngợi chuyện gì phiền phức, chỉ cần theo chỉ thị của cấp trên mà làm là được rồi. Lo gì không có cơm ăn. Đối với những kẻ theo đuổi một môi trường như vậy, Takashima có lẽ đúng là Utopia của họ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
905:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. ~ George Orwell, 1984, #NFDB
906:The U.S. government, subservient to corporate power, has become a burlesque. The last vestiges of the rule of law are evaporating. The kleptocrats openly pillage and loot. Programs instituted to protect the common good—public education, welfare, and environmental regulations—are being dismantled. The bloated military, sucking the marrow out of the nation, is unassailable. Poverty is a nightmare for half the population. Poor people of color are gunned down with impunity in the streets. Our prison system, the world’s largest, is filled with the destitute. There is no shortage of artists, intellectuals, and writers, from Martin Buber and George Orwell to James Baldwin, who warned us that this dystopian era was fast approaching. But in our Disneyfied world of intoxicating and endless images, cult of the self and willful illiteracy, we did not listen. We will pay for our negligence. ~ Chris Hedges, #NFDB
907:Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists. Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words 'impartiality' and 'objectivity' is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over... [they] now mean the establishment point of view... Journalists don't sit down and think, 'I'm now going to speak for the establishment.' Of course not. But they internalise a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. ~ John Pilger, #NFDB
908:Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves, and which ends up becoming a hereditary aristocracy. “The essence of oligarchic rule,” wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.” The word “oligarchy” has been applied to Russia’s kleptocrats who obtained natural resources and other assets under Boris Yeltsin, most notoriously in the 1994-1996 “bank loans for shares” insider deals. It also applies to Latin American and other client oligarchies that concentrate wealth in the financial and propertied class at the top of the pyramid. However, U.S. media vocabulary defines any country as a democracy as long as it supports the Washington Consensus and U.S. diplomacy. ~ Michael Hudson, #NFDB
909:And yet I, and others of my ilk, am reviled in terms far harsher than those kept for the real opponents like the Creationists. We are labelled ‘accommodationists’ for our willingness to give religion a space not occupied by science. We are put down in terms that denote powerful emotion, way beyond reason. In The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I am likened to Neville Chamberlain, the pusillanimous appeaser of Hitler. Jerry Coyne, the author of both the book and the blog Why Evolution is True and an ardent fan of Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, wrote about one of my books in terms used by George Orwell: ‘There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.’ The Minnesota biologist PZ Myers, who writes the blog Pharyngula, has referred to me as a ‘clueless gobshite’. And if I had a dollar for everyone who has made a pun out of my last name, I would be a very rich man. Because I will not toe the line absolutely or bow down in praise of Dawkins and company, because I laugh at their pretensions and positions, I am anathema maranatha.
[Curb your enthusiasm] ~ Michael Ruse,#NFDB
910:When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. I feel this very strongly with Swift, with Defoe, with Fielding, Stendhal, Thackeray, Flaubert, though in several cases I do not know what these people looked like and do not want to know. What one sees is the face that the writer ought to have. Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens's photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls. ~ George Orwell, in "Charles Dickens" (1939), Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940)., #NFDB
911:Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
912:he contrasts two pivotal works of dystopian fiction: George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In Orwell’s vision, he notes, we are crushed by a merciless oppression imposed by others, whereas in Huxley’s vision, we are seduced, sedated, and satiated. We enslave ourselves. “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much information that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. “Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared that we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared that we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. “In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. “In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. . . .” Orwell, ~ Brooke Gladstone, #NFDB
913:Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here is perhaps not a great work of art; Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America is better. One novel known by millions of young Americans that offers an account of tyranny and resistance is J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If you or your friends or your children did not read it that way the first time, then it bears reading again. Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz (1953); “The Power of the Powerless” by Václav Havel (1978); “How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist” by Leszek Kołakowski (1978); The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash (1989); The Burden of Responsibility by Tony Judt (1998); Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning (1992); and Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (2014). Christians ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
914:Since at least the Great Depression, we’ve been hearing warnings that automation was or was about to be throwing millions out of work—Keynes at the time coined the term “technological unemployment,” and many assumed the mass unemployment of the 1930s was just a sign of things to come—and while this might make it seem such claims have always been somewhat alarmist, what this book suggests is that the opposite was the case. They were entirely accurate. Automation did, in fact, lead to mass unemployment. We have simply stopped the gap by adding dummy jobs that are effectively made up. A combination of political pressure from both right and left, a deeply held popular feeling that paid employment alone can make one a full moral person, and finally, a fear on the part of the upper classes, already noted by George Orwell in 1933, of what the laboring masses might get up to if they had too much leisure on their hands, has ensured that whatever the underlying reality, when it comes to official unemployment figures in wealthy countries, the needle should never jump too far from the range of 3 to 8 percent. But if one eliminates bullshit jobs from the picture, and the real jobs that only exist to support them, one could say that the catastrophe predicted in the 1930s really did happen. Upward of 50 percent to 60 percent of the population has, in fact, been thrown out of work. ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
915:When Postman wrote the introduction to his important book Amusing Ourselves to Death, he set forth the stance he adopts by contrasting the warnings of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’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 Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much information that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared that we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared that we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.34 ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
916:Le “Smart Tv” ascoltano e diffondono ciò che sentono in casa 308 parole Il Grande fratello, ipotizzato da George Orwell in «1984», è tra noi e può spiare le nostre conversazioni casalinghe. Lo strumento che usa sono le «Smart Tv» e l’attivazione delle funzioni vocali dei telecomandi. Questo perché il televisore ascolta quello che si dice davanti a lui e può condividere quello che sente sia con il produttore del televisore sia con i proprietari delle applicazioni installate sul televisore. Quello che poteva sembrare una battaglia contro il mondo globalizzazato diventa un pericolo reale se a dirlo è la Samsung, uno dei principali produttori mondiali di televisioni «intelligenti». Il «warning customers» avverte che il microfono del telecomando può catturare le conversazioni e trasmetterle attraverso la Rete a «terze parti» non bene identificate e dà dei consigli sulla privacy. Ma questo non è il primo allarme, un altro produttore di tv, Lg, era finito sotto accusa perché raccoglieva dati del proprietario del televisore anche se questi, dal menu, ne negava espressamente il consenso. Ogni volta che una chiavetta usb veniva inserita tutte le informazione dei file venivano trasmesse sui loro server. In questo modo le aziende riescono a sapere quali sono i nostri gusti, le nostre abitudini, anche in termini di orari e così ci «offrono» pubblicità mirata. Una volta scoperta Lg si è giustificata così: «Offriamo moltissimi modelli di Smart Tv e di tipo differente per ciascun mercato, quindi chiediamo pazienza e comprensione durante lo svolgimento degli accertamenti». Nell’attesa, togliete i televisori dalla camera da letto, non si sa mai. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
917:Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was pretty much the same. Both of them warn the liberal ironist intellectual against temptations to be cruel. Both of them dramatise the tension between private irony and liberal hope.
In the following passage, Nabokov helped blur the distinctions which I want to draw:
...'Lolita' has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only in so far as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann.
Orwell blurred the same distinctions when, in one of his rare descents into rant, "The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda," he wrote exactly the sort of thing Nabokov loathed:
You cannot take a purely aesthetic interest in a disease you are dying from; you cannot feel dispassionately about a man who is about to cut your throat. In a world in which Fascism and Socialism were fighting one another, any thinking person had to take sides... This period of ten years or so in which literature, even poetry was mixed up with pamphleteering, did a great service to literary criticism, because it destroyed the illusion of pure aestheticism... It debunked art for art's sake. ~ Richard M Rorty,#NFDB
918:The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . . ~ Judith Lewis Herman,#NFDB
919:Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the succession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is ”breaking” until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.
The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.
More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of vocabularies, and the associated difficulties of thought. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, firemen find and burn books while most citizens watch interactive television. In George Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, books are banned and television is two-way, allowing the government to observe citizens at all times. In 1984, the language of visual media is highly constrained, to starve the public of the concepts needed to think about the present, remember the past, and consider the future. One of the regime’s projects is to limit the language further by eliminating ever more words with each edition of the official dictionary.
Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell’s and Bradbury’s books could not do this—but we still can. ~ Timothy Snyder,#NFDB
920:Even if there is no connection between diversity and international influence, some people would argue that immigration brings cultural enrichment. This may seem to be an attractive argument, but the culture of Americans remains almost completely untouched by millions of Hispanic and Asian immigrants. They may have heard of Cinco de Mayo or Chinese New Year, but unless they have lived abroad or have studied foreign affairs, the white inhabitants of Los Angeles are likely to have only the most superficial knowledge of Mexico or China despite the presence of many foreigners.
Nor is it immigrants who introduce us to Cervantes, Puccini, Alexander Dumas, or Octavio Paz. Real high culture crosses borders by itself, not in the back pockets of tomato pickers, refugees, or even the most accomplished immigrants. What has Yo-Yo Ma taught Americans about China? What have we learned from Seiji Ozawa or Ichiro about Japan? Immigration and the transmission of culture are hardly the same thing. Nearly every good-sized American city has an opera company, but that does not require Italian immigrants.
Miami is now nearly 70 percent Hispanic, but what, in the way of authentic culture enrichment, has this brought the city? Are the art galleries, concerts, museums, and literature of Los Angeles improved by diversity? Has the culture of Detroit benefited from a majority-black population? If immigration and diversity bring cultural enrichment, why do whites move out of those very parts of the country that are being “enriched”?
It is true that Latin American immigration has inspired more American school children to study Spanish, but fewer now study French, German, or Latin. If anything, Hispanic immigration reduces what little linguistic diversity is to be found among native-born Americans. [...] [M]any people study Spanish, not because they love Hispanic culture or Spanish literature but for fear they may not be able to work in America unless they speak the language of Mexico.
Another argument in favor of diversity is that it is good for people—especially young people —to come into contact with people unlike themselves because they will come to understand and appreciate each other. Stereotyped and uncomplimentary views about other races or cultures are supposed to crumble upon contact. This, of course, is just another version of the “contact theory” that was supposed to justify school integration. Do ex-cons and the graduates—and numerous dropouts—of Los Angeles high schools come away with a deep appreciation of people of other races? More than half a century ago, George Orwell noted that:
'During the war of 1914-18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired. ~ Jared Taylor,#NFDB
921:The dominant literary mode of the twentieth century has been the fantastic. This may appear a surprising claim, which would not have seemed even remotely
conceivable at the start of the century and which is bound to encounter fierce resistance even now. However, when the time comes to look back at the century, it seems very likely that future literary historians, detached from the squabbles of our present, will see as its most representative and distinctive works books like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and also George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle, Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot-49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. The list could readily be extended, back to the late nineteenth century with H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau and The War of the Worlds, and up to writers currently active like Stephen R. Donaldson and George R.R. Martin. It could take in authors as different, not to say opposed, as Kingsley and Martin Amis, Anthony Burgess, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Don DeLillo, and Julian Barnes. By the end of the century, even authors deeply committed to the realist novel have often found themselves unable to resist the gravitational pull of the fantastic as a literary mode.
This is not the same, one should note, as fantasy as a literary genre – of the authors listed above, only four besides Tolkien would find their works regularly placed on the ‘fantasy’ shelves of bookshops, and ‘the fantastic’ includes many genres besides fantasy: allegory and parable, fairy-tale, horror and science fiction, modern ghost-story and medieval romance. Nevertheless, the point remains.
Those authors of the twentieth century who have spoken most powerfully to and for their contemporaries have for some reason found it necessary to use the metaphoric mode of fantasy, to write about worlds and creatures which we know do not exist, whether Tolkien’s ‘Middle-earth’, Orwell’s ‘Ingsoc’, the remote islands of Golding and Wells, or the Martians and Tralfa-madorians who burst into peaceful English or American suburbia in Wells and Vonnegut. A ready explanation for this phenomenon is of course that it represents a kind of literary disease, whose sufferers – the millions of readers of fantasy – should be scorned, pitied, or rehabilitated back to correct and proper taste. Commonly the disease is said to be ‘escapism’: readers and writers of fantasy are fleeing from reality. The problem with this is that so many of the originators of the later twentieth-century fantastic mode, including all four of those first mentioned above (Tolkien, Orwell, Golding, Vonnegut) are combat veterans, present at or at least deeply involved in the most traumatically significant events of the century, such as the Battle of the Somme (Tolkien), the bombing of Dresden (Vonnegut), the rise and early victory of fascism (Orwell). Nor can anyone say that they turned their backs on these events. Rather, they had to find some way of communicating and commenting on them. It is strange that this had, for some reason, in so many cases to involve fantasy as well as realism, but that is what has happened. ~ Tom Shippey,#NFDB
1 Psychology
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
afterward, however, I read George Orwells Road to Wigan Pier. This book finally undermined me not
only my socialist ideology, but my faith in ideological stances themselves. In the famous essay concluding
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
Incidentally, George Orwell once wrote a parody of this passage in
modern academic jargon to highlight the contrast between vivid
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Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills (1994 - 1995) - This show focused on four "teenagers", Laurie, Gordon, Drew, and Swinton being recruited by an blob-like alien called Nimbar. To fight off the monsters sent by Emperor Gorganus, and his talking bird friend, Lechner.
Taboo Tattoo (2016 - Current) - a Japanese action seinen manga series written and illustrated by Shinjir.[3] It was serialized by Media Factory in its Monthly Comic Alive magazine between November 2009 and June 2017.[4] The series was compiled into thirteen volumes between 2010 and 2017. The series is published in French by Bambo...
For the love of Benji(1977) - second film featuring Benji the dog. In this film, he scampers through Athens with secret agents in pursuit, who are trying to get the formula tattooed on his paw.
Tattoo(1981) - A mentally unstable tattoo artist(Bruce Dern)kidnaps a model(Maud Adams)with the intention of tattooing her entire body.
The Illustrated Man(1969) - A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it. Written
The Tattooist(2007) - A young artist unknowingly plays a role in releasing a deadly spirit as he attempts to learn tatau, the Samoan tradition of tattooing.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2102/Tattoon_Master --
https://myanimelist.net/anime/29758/Taboo_Tattoo -- Action, Mystery, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Martial Arts, Seinen
Blindspot ::: TV-14 | 42min | Action, Crime, Drama | TV Series (20152020) -- Jane Doe is found in Times Square with no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body. Creator: Martin Gero
Ink Master ::: TV-14 | 1h | Reality-TV | TV Series (2012 ) -- Ten of the country's most creative and skilled tattoo artists are judged by icons of the tattoo world. They compete for a hundred thousand dollars and the title of "INK MASTER". Stars:
Taboo-Tattoo ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Comedy | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 12 episodes Taboo-Tattoo Poster "Tattoos" - ancient weapons that drastically enhance the physical abilities of their users, known as the "Sealed," allowing them to bring forth supernatural phenomena when activated through... S Stars: Justin Briner, Monica Rial, Christopher Bevins
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) ::: 7.8/10 -- Mn som hatar kvinnor (original title) -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Poster -- A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years. Director: Niels Arden Oplev Writers:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 2h 38min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 21 December 2011 (USA) -- Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. Director: David Fincher Writers:
The King of Staten Island (2020) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Comedy, Drama | 12 June 2020 (USA) -- Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life. Director: Judd Apatow Writers:
The Rose Tattoo (1955) ::: 7.0/10 -- Unrated | 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 13 December 1955 (USA) -- A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death. Director: Daniel Mann Writers: Tennessee Williams (screenplay), Hal Kanter (adaptation) | 1 more
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Golden Kamuy 2nd Season -- -- Geno Studio -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Seinen -- Golden Kamuy 2nd Season Golden Kamuy 2nd Season -- In Hokkaido, it is rumored that there is a stash of hidden gold. This gold was supposedly stolen by a man who killed the original Ainu owners; and before being captured and imprisoned by the police, he hid it in a secret location. In order to relay the gold's location to his comrades on the outside, he tattooed the map on the bodies of his cellmates and promised them a share of the gold—provided they managed to escape and find it. -- -- In Golden Kamuy 2nd Season, First Lieutenant Tokushirou Tsurumi plans to give the 7th Division an advantage in the war for the tattoos by getting a taxidermist to create skins that only he can distinguish as fake. Meanwhile, Saichi "The Immortal" Sugimoto, Asirpa, and their companions continue their hunt for the skins by following a strange rumor: a thief who broke into a home in Yubari found taxidermied human corpses, among which was a torso with strange tattoos. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 122,433 8.21
Golden Kamuy -- -- Geno Studio -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Seinen -- Golden Kamuy Golden Kamuy -- In early 1900s Hokkaido after the Russo-Japanese war, Saichi Sugimoto tirelessly pans for gold. Nicknamed "Sugimoto the Immortal" for his death-defying acts in battle, the ex-soldier seeks fortune in order to fulfill a promise made to his best friend before he was killed in action: to support his family, especially his widow who needs treatment overseas for her deteriorating eyesight. One day, a drunken companion tells Sugimoto the tale of a man who murdered a group of Ainu and stole a fortune in gold. Before his arrest by the police, he hid the gold somewhere in Hokkaido. The only clue to its location is the coded map he tattooed on the bodies of his cellmates in exchange for a share of the treasure, should they manage to escape and find it. -- -- Sugimoto does not think much of the tale until he discovers the drunken man’s corpse bearing the same tattoos described in the story. But before he can collect his thoughts, a grizzly bear—the cause of the man's demise—approaches Sugimoto, intent on finishing her meal. He is saved by a young Ainu girl named Asirpa, whose father happened to be one of the murdered Ainu. With Asirpa's hunting skills and Sugimoto's survival instincts, the pair agree to join forces and find the hidden treasure—one to get back what was rightfully her people's, and the other to fulfill his friend's dying wish. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 235,656 7.83
Golden Kamuy OVA -- -- Geno Studio -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Historical Seinen -- Golden Kamuy OVA Golden Kamuy OVA -- The 7th Division's Private Hyakunosuke Ogata and former Shinsengumi Vice Commander Toshizou Hijikata find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war in Barato after hearing rumors of the Hidoro gang possessing an escaped prisoner's tattooed skin. With a lead to the hidden Ainu gold close at hand, the two gladly take up arms but a betrayal will force both sides to think twice before carelessly jumping the gun. -- -- OVA - Sep 19, 2018 -- 17,338 7.19
Horimiya -- -- CloverWorks -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Horimiya Horimiya -- On the surface, the thought of Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura getting along would be the last thing in people's minds. After all, Hori has a perfect combination of beauty and brains, while Miyamura appears meek and distant to his fellow classmates. However, a fateful meeting between the two lays both of their hidden selves bare. Even though she is popular at school, Hori has little time to socialize with her friends due to housework. On the other hand, Miyamura lives under the noses of his peers, his body bearing secret tattoos and piercings that make him look like a gentle delinquent. -- -- Having opposite personalities yet sharing odd similarities, the two quickly become friends and often spend time together in Hori's home. As they both emerge from their shells, they share with each other a side of themselves concealed from the outside world. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 573,127 8.29
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun -- -- Gonzo, Hoods Entertainment -- 6 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Hori-san to Miyamura-kun -- Within everyone there exists a side preferably kept hidden, even from close friends. For the smart and popular Kyouko Hori, it's the fact that she has to do all the housework and care for her little brother, Souta, because of her parents' busy work schedules. For the gentle Izumi Miyamura, whom everybody sees as an otaku, it's his nine hidden piercings and large body tattoo. -- -- So what happens when they accidentally discover each other's hidden sides? Sharing parts of themselves that they couldn't with anyone else, strong bonds of friendship soon begin to form between Miyamura and Hori, as well as those around them. As their hidden personas start to dissipate, they slowly learn how to open up to others. -- -- OVA - Sep 26, 2012 -- 79,025 7.36
Oni-Tensei -- -- - -- 4 eps -- Original -- Hentai Horror Supernatural -- Oni-Tensei Oni-Tensei -- There is an ancient legend that says if a tattoo is drawn to perfection, it will come to life. Reiko Kure is a female detective with a strange massacre on her hands. Some kind of huge animal savagely murdered thirteen members of the mafia, and only the quiet Ema Nozomi was left at the scene. Ema is taken into protective custody. However, every man left with her is killed, and every woman left with her is raped. There are no clues, except the innocent Ema's strange tattoo, perfectly depicting a demon. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- OVA - Mar 25, 2000 -- 2,482 6.16
Project Scard: Praeter no Kizu -- -- GoHands -- 13 eps -- Other -- Action Super Power -- Project Scard: Praeter no Kizu Project Scard: Praeter no Kizu -- Project Scard depicts the encounters and battles of those who have tattoos which possess the sealed powers of divine beasts and gods. The story is set in the Akatsuki Special Zone, a lawless zone in Tokyo. -- -- "Helios" are those who use the ability of the tattoos to protect the city, "Artemis" are committed to maintain security and control, whilst having a strong commercial motive, and the "Public Security Special Service" are Scard Staff of the metropolitan police department. They live through the turbulent days to keep on going. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 22,414 5.78
Taboo Tattoo -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Super Power Supernatural Martial Arts Seinen -- Taboo Tattoo Taboo Tattoo -- Seigi, a martial arts trained middle schooler, often feels driven to protect the weaker people around him. One day, he defends a homeless man against some punks, and the man gives him a strange tattoo on his palm in return. The tattoo is a secret weapon produced in the arms race between America and the Serinistan Kingdom. -- -- Seigi finds himself in over his head when a powerful girl, using the same secret weapon, violently pursues him in order to retrieve it. His skill at martial arts may not be enough to keep him alive, but will he be able to learn how to trigger the power of his tattoo in time? -- -- (Source: MU) -- 224,356 5.78
Taboo Tattoo -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Super Power Supernatural Martial Arts Seinen -- Taboo Tattoo Taboo Tattoo -- Seigi, a martial arts trained middle schooler, often feels driven to protect the weaker people around him. One day, he defends a homeless man against some punks, and the man gives him a strange tattoo on his palm in return. The tattoo is a secret weapon produced in the arms race between America and the Serinistan Kingdom. -- -- Seigi finds himself in over his head when a powerful girl, using the same secret weapon, violently pursues him in order to retrieve it. His skill at martial arts may not be enough to keep him alive, but will he be able to learn how to trigger the power of his tattoo in time? -- -- (Source: MU) -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 224,356 5.78
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