Mass Quotes by George Orwell

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring…

— George Orwell

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as…

— George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the…

— George Orwell

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual…

— George Orwell

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as…

— George Orwell

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they…

— George Orwell

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty…

— George Orwell

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

— George Orwell

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— George Orwell

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…

— George Orwell

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils…

— George Orwell

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

— George Orwell

But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group…

— George Orwell