“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
' The People will believe , what the Media tells them , they will believe' George Orwell — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I think that the basement where Orwell washed dishes in Paris was his first lesson in anti-humbug - and part of the… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell” — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting… — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
'1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
“Orwell was one of those upon whom nothing was lost. (This included, as Orwell himself said: “the power of facing unpleasant facts”).… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell ’s 1984 and the only difference… — Paul Joseph Watson Copy Share Image
“I once wrote a book about George Orwell, who might have been my hero if I had heroes, and was upset by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Orwell could see that Burnham, was nothing but a naked power worshipper, and one of those annoying writers, typical of Marxists and… — Dennis Glover Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. — Janadas Devan Copy Share Image