“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
This IRA, this Inflation Reduction Act, which is Orwellian named, is a doomsday machine for the federal budget. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.” — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran.… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
As you can imagine, there were people who were like, "Why are you being the PC cop?" or, "This is Orwellian to… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
I'm not excusing the illegal act. I am here illegally. I'm here illegally, without authorization. That's a fact. That's nothing you can… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“Our darkest fiction is full of Orwellian dystopias, shadowy cabals, and mind-controlling supervillains. But it turns out that the brainless, microscopic, single-celled… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this… — William Safire Copy Share Image
As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
“However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA… — Colleen McMahon Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty! Especially to fail in their endeavors! Only in… — Keith Parfitt Copy Share Image
The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
“If we are not careful the result might be an Orwellian police state that constantly monitors and controls not only all our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The real hate crime these days is the Orwellian intimidation wielded by the Left against those that don't think the way they… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“I want to set the record straight." "The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984 ? They rewrite the… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However,… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
