No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
The object of power is power.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
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