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Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

People, Population, Teach

"Diaries".

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Men, May, Failing

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Mean, Two, Mind

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

Truth, Lying, Believe

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Funny, Life, Talking

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

War, Lying, Exercise

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.467, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

Men, Atheism, Anarchist

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

Country, Horse, Kings

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

Men, Clubs, Sides

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

Fascism, Desirable

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

Big Brother is watching you.

Brother, Government, Bigs

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

Jobs, Wall, Home

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Two, Evil, Choices

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Motivational, Enemy, Truth Is

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Philosophy, Gun, Two

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.151, Arcturus Publishing

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Home, Government, Cows

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Lying, Writing, Political Language

Rich people are poor people with money.

People, Rich, Poor

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Mean, Criticize, Freedom Of The Press

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

Doe, World, Decent

George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Thinking, Individual, States

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Together Again, Mind, Pieces

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.573, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

Mistake, Past, Order

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Believe, Triumph, Ifs

"Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950".

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

Running, Past, Class

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