Orwellian Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
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As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's…
— Charlton Heston
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Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise…
— John Michael Sherlock
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given…
— Bob Barr
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The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the…
— Jacque Fresco
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Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per…
— Sean Lennon
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...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit…
— Rose Bird
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...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 illness should be…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left…
— Gerry Spence
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It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice…
— Roger Gale
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Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a…
— Mark Steyn
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There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -…
— David Foster Wallace
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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the…
— Terence McKenna
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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue,…
— Heather Brooke
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I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated…
— Henry Giroux
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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an…
— Gregg Easterbrook
Who Wrote These Orwellian Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Orwellian Quotes as follows: