Capitalism Quotes by George Orwell

18 Capitalism quotes by George Orwell

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George Orwell’s eye for paradox shines through these eighteen lines on capitalism. His prose, laced with irony, pulls back the curtain on the contradictions that linger beneath the surface of market societies.

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“Vicisti, O Aspidistra!”

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“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.”

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The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed…

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The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

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In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is…

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“On the one hand you have the warm-hearted unthinking Socialist, the typical working-class Socialist, who only wants to abolish poverty and does…

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“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money…

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“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than…

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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all…

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“The unbearable silliness of English newspapers from about 1900 onward has had two main causes. One is that nearly the whole of…

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“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between…

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“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in…

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“Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed…

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The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong…

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“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram…

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“Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. This happened to a…

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“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our…

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[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of…

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“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…

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“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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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…

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“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

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“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…

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“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…

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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…

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…

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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

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“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

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