1984 Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1984
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“And this author thinks that understanding why they died is the best and most fitting memorial we can raise for the victims. Letting their deaths go unrecorded, or distorted by propaganda, or misunderstood through simplified clichés, would in fact bring the last touch to the killers' work in completing the victims' dehumanisation. Man is largely a social construct and to… — Prunier, Gérard Copy Share
“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“...they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died” — W H Auden Taylor Copy Share Image
“The world at large is not easily moved to action; it requires many terrible martyrdoms to disturb its equilibrium of dullness; and even when disturbed, it tends quickly to resume its wonted immobility. It is the thinking, radical elements which are, literally, the movers of the world, the intellectual and emotional disturbers of its stupid equanimity. They must never be… — Francisco Ferrer Guardia Copy Share
“The dead kept vigil in the streets, in homes, demanding peace and justice.” — Maurizio de Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy” — Jessica Dovey Copy Share Image
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
“it’s a long lane that has no turning,” “the weariest day draws to an end,” etc., seemed false and vain sayings, so long and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the… — John Peter Nettl 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
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what… — George Orwell 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. I have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us .' - Julia” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Hasta que no tengan consciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell ’s 1984 and the only difference between our… — Paul Joseph Watson Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
