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 More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. George Orwell memorable war art When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys George Orwell white-man tyrants men 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 fighting ignorance war 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 defeat communism people 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 intelligent war peace Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. George Orwell lunatic minorities insanity The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes George Orwell cost stars eye Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. George Orwell tea-drinking civilization country 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 flames desire people The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. George Orwell easier language foolish Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. George Orwell poverty limits worry 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 eggs successful two I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell punishment doubt education 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 love-and-friendship privacy tragedy He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. George Orwell atheism atheist god Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. George Orwell political-language chaos decay Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. George Orwell belief bumps reality 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 pain hero wish 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 duty mind knows Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell fake-people events life
