25 prophetic quotes George Orwell

Famous dystopia Orwell's "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, that in our days, they acquire a new, slightly ominous sound.

Reread the works of Orwell, Website is still not lost hope that after all he was wrong.

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Freedom - is to say that two plus two - four. If it is allowed, the rest follows from this. If you observe small rules, you can break the big ones. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. Power - not a means; it is - the purpose. Not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; make revolution to establish a dictatorship. The aim of repression - the repression. The purpose of torture - torture. The purpose of government - power. What views are held and what the masses do not adhere to - care. They can be granted intellectual liberty 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 that. The masses never revolt themselves and never rise up because they are oppressed. Moreover, they do not even realize that the oppressed, until they are given the opportunity to compare. Many people feel at ease in a foreign land, but despising the natives. Every writer who becomes a party banner, sooner or later faces a choice - either to obey or to shut up. There are times when the "wrong" beliefs more sincere than the "faithful." In our society, the ones who are best aware of what is happening, least of all able to see the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the stronger the illusion: the more intelligent, the more insane. In times of universal lies to tell the truth - it's extremism. Absolutely white as black and absolutely, seems somehow defective vision. And if you take all the lies, the party imposed if all the documents, the same song, then settles in the lie becomes the truth and history. 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. To see what is happening right in front of your nose, you must fight desperately. Not for anything in the world you do not want to increase the pain. The 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 - it is a way to break into pieces, sprayed into the stratosphere, to drown in the deep material 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 if they do not believe the purpose of life happiness.



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