The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
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 -
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
GEORGE ORWELL -
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELL -
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELL -
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL -
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL