Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell 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 lines couple past 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 numbers men art Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. George Orwell dry-up freedom-of-speech creative Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. George Orwell cogs capitalist machines Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. George Orwell argument ifs found 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 blow complaining doe 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 opponents views war Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell patriotism hatred class 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 military running believe 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 insightful mean thinking 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 war life death 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 dignity evolution animal 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 generations nine art There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. George Orwell smart clever funny 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 adopted should forgotten No one is patriotic about taxes. George Orwell patriotism taxes patriotic 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 party ignorance war 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 cities doors thinking 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 minorities believe past 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 phrases trouble people
