“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“On the one hand you have the warm-hearted unthinking Socialist, the typical working-class Socialist, who only wants to abolish poverty and does… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. This happened to a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The unbearable silliness of English newspapers from about 1900 onward has had two main causes. One is that nearly the whole of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
![“[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d20/george-orwell-57_bounds_what-hayek-does-not-see-or-will-not-admi_1647026.jpg)
