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Political Quotes by George Orwell
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
- Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
- You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
- To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,…
- A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today
- It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose…
- The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of…
- Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim…
- Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- 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 truth.…
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
- It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle