George Orwell Quotes

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

All socialism involves slavery.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Every woman adores a Fascist.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

Hate menaces stable government …

We are gong down the road to stateism. Where we will wind up, no one can tell, but if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual-whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or doctor-will soon he an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state.

If you give human beings power over others, their natural tendency is to be fascists.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

The masses in this country [Spain] are not like your Americans, nor even like the British. They are slave stock. They are good for nothing but slaves and only when they are used as slaves are they happy.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation