Gloomy prophet George Orwell Bashny.Net

Famous dystopia Orwell "Animal Farm" and "1984" were written in the mid-twentieth century, and although the predictions of science fiction of the horrors of the totalitarian regime did not come true, it is in our days, they take on a new, slightly ominous sound.

Reread the works of Orwell will not lose hope that after all he was wrong.

* All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

* Freedom - is to say that twice two is four. If it is allowed, everything else follows from this.

* Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

* If you observe small rules, you can break the big.
* If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

* Power - not a means; it - the goal. Not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; make revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The purpose of repression - the repression. The purpose of torture - torture. The purpose of power - power.





* What are shared by the masses and some do not adhere to - care. They can provide the intellectual freedom because they have no intellect.

* In any society, ordinary people have to live in spite of the existing order of things.

* The best books tell you what you already know yourself.

* The masses never revolt themselves and never rise up because they are oppressed. Moreover, they do not even realize that depressed until they were not allowed to compare.

* Many people feel at ease in a foreign land, only contempt for indigenous people.

* Every writer who becomes a party banner, sooner or later faces a choice - either submit or shut up.
There are situations where "wrong" beliefs more sincere than "the faithful».

* In our society, those who are best aware of what is happening, the least able to see the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the stronger the illusion: the more intelligent, the crazier.

* In times of universal lies to tell the truth - it's extremism.

* Absolutely white as absolutely black, seems somehow visually impaired.

* And if you take all the lies imposed party if all the documents, the same song, then that settles lie in history and becomes the truth.

* There is nothing of yours, apart from a few cubic centimeters in the skull.

* Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

* In order to see what is happening right in front of your nose, you must fight desperately.

* No way in the world you do not want to increased pain. In pain you want only one thing - that it's over. There is nothing worse in life than the physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

* We, the representatives of the middle class, in addition to the correct pronunciation, nothing to lose.

* War - a way to shatter, sprayed into the stratosphere, drown in the deep materials that could improve the lives of the people and thus ultimately make it more reasonable.

* Patriotism is by nature not aggressive either militarily or culturally. Nationalism is inseparable from the desire for power.

* If you are in the minority - and even in the singular - it does not mean you're crazy.

* People can be happy only on the condition that they do not think the purpose of life happiness.

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