George Orwell Quotes

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

Love of totalitarian propaganda is more evil than hatred.

It wasn't fun to go to school, because we had to wear these blue things around our necks. We had to join the Pioneer Society, and we had to salute with our hands over our eyes. Even then, I was thinking for myself. I thought this wasn't so different from the way the Nazis had conditioned people.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

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

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Spend most of the day reading fascisti pamphlets. They certainly have turned the whole country into an army. From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape…. It is certainly a socialist experiment in that it destroys individuality. It also destroys liberty.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...from the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of big brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.