Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
