Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. — Janadas Devan Copy Share Image
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. (Misattributed to George Orwell)” — Selwyn Duke Copy Share Image
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Yet Orwell never fit into the BBC. At about the same time, he wrote in his diary, “Its atmosphere is something between… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
Reading Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'. I think every policy person should read it. Prescient, gnarly, ugly, and moving. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
“Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four” — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Or as George Orwell has it, in his proposed 1945 preface to Animal Farm, entitled ‘Freedom of the Press’: ‘If liberty means… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Do you have a copy of Nineteen Eighty Six? BOOKSELLER: Nineteen Eighty Six? CUSTOMER: Yeah, Orwell. BOOKSELLER: Oh – Nineteen Eighty… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic -… — Keith Gessen 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… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
“I meant “tribalism” in the widest sense of the word, as applied to race, religion, nationalism, or politics. George Orwell defined it… — John Carlin Copy Share Image
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be,… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“You do not exist. I think I exist. I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die.… — George Orwell 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
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Orwell takes his place with these men as a figure. In one degree or another they are geniuses, and he is not—if… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The Animal Farm is a well written book in comprehensive english. George Orwell compares the communist Russian political system trying to make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
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