Tag: George Orwell

“Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”

George Orwell

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

“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. Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

George Orwell

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

George Orwell

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

George Orwell

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

George Orwell

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

George Orwell

“Big Brother is watching you.”

George Orwell

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell