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.
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.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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?
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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.
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
Big Brother is watching you.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
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.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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.
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
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.
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