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| 22 of 122 results found for - "George Orwell" | [Quote No.42612] Need Area: Friends > General
"...it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was. Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that the USSR [with Joseph Stalin] was progressing towards anything that one could truly call Socialism. On the contrary, I was struck by clear signs of its transformation into a hierarchical society, in which the rulers have no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class. Moreover, the workers and intelligentsia in a country like England cannot understand that the USSR of today is altogether different from what it was in 1917. It is partly that they do not want to understand (i.e. they want to believe that, somewhere, a really Socialist country does actually exist), and partly that, being accustomed to comparative freedom and moderation in public life, totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible to them." - George Orwell
Quote from in the original preface to his famous novel 'Animal Farm'; as published in 'George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography' (1953) by Ian R. Willison.
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"[In war...] 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
(1903-1950), pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, British author of the best-selling books, '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.
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"[Media bias and propaganda regarding wars and conflicts:] 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. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification." - George Orwell
(1903-1950) pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, British author. Source: Politics and the English Language, 1946.
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"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak [a form of government and media propaganda and censorship] is to narrow the range of thought [and debate and thereby informed choice, democracy and freedom]?... 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?...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. [It makes the government desire to control us so much easier.]" - George Orwell
Quote from his book, '1984', published in 1948.
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"The real division is not between conservatives [who wish for things to stay as they are] and revolutionaries [who wish for things to change for the better] but between authoritarians [who believe that government should have nearly all the importance, power and freedom] and libertarians [who believe that each individual should have nearly all the importance, power and freedom]." - George Orwell
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"[Propaganda and] Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
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"[Propaganda and diplomacy:] 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." - George Orwell
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"Political language [especially propaganda] - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
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"[Totalitarian and dictatorial governments, politicians, bureaucrats, etc :] All tyrannies rule through fraud [including propaganda] and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
" - George Orwell
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: In the ultimate choice between life and death, freedom and slavery as in existential War can be rationally argued will become necessarily immoral, where 'it doesn't matter what is right, only who is left', and therefore 'might is right' - Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Conflict and War: strategies - superior force and deception:] We sleep safe in our beds because rough men [and women] stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - George Orwell
Famous journalist and author. [While it may be apocryphal, Winston Churchill is often quoted as having said (supposedly paraphrasing Orwell) “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” Also refer the analogy of peaceful sheep, the dogs that protect them and the wolves that would hurt them from Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, the US Military psychologist and author in his book, 'On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace', published 2004.]
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: In the ultimate choice between life and death, freedom and slavery as in existential War can be rationally argued will become necessarily immoral, where 'it doesn't matter what is right, only who is left', and therefore 'might is right' - Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Conflict and War: strategies - superior force and deception - as Thomas Jefferson once said, 'The price of [national security and] freedom is eternal vigilance' by all the national defence forces - declared and secret:] We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - George Orwell
British author. This quote is attributed to him. Quoteinvestigator.com believes that this saying was introduced by Richard Grenier who was attempting to provide a pithy representation of an idea he ascribed to George Orwell. Later writers and speakers turned his phrase into a quotation and directly attached it to Orwell. Over time variants were constructed with modified phrasing. Refer https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/#:~:text=Remember%20George%20Orwell's%20unminced%20words,who%20would%20do%20us%20harm.%E2%80%9D ]
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." - George Orwell
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"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
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"The books one reads...create in one's mind a ... series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life...
" - George Orwell
'Riding Down from Bangor', 1946
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"Good writing is like a windowpane [which is clear or magnifies what is in front of or within the author].
" - George Orwell
George Orwell [1903 – 1950], was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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"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
[1903 – 1950], George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the satirical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already [and have perhaps forgotten or couldn't express as well]." - George Orwell
[1903 – 1950], George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the satirical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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"Good prose is like a window pane." - George Orwell
(1903-1950), writer.
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"[The news media should always remember their duty to a democracy - not spin but truth for an informed choice!] But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." - George Orwell
'Politics and the English Language', 1946.
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"All art is propaganda [subjective truth and personal opinion with a desired intention]." - George Orwell
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"Men [and women] can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. [If they choose another worthy purpose, in the pursuit of that purpose and the simple and natural acts of living, while they will encounter challenges, they will find much love, joy and happiness.]" - George Orwell
George Orwell [1903 – 1950], was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering [for a good cause or purpose hopefully], and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise." - George Orwell
George Orwell [1903 – 1950], was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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