Books Quote by Jack L. Chalker

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.”

— Thomas E Ricks

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was…

— Ray Bradbury

“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Orwell was one of those upon whom nothing was lost. (This included, as Orwell himself said: “the power of facing unpleasant facts”). By declining…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic - and, in…

— Keith Gessen

“So everybody lives the way they're told to. The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair…

— Helen Potrebenko

“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail,…

— Pat Califia

“He was teaching that people who trust only in themselves can never find peace or contentment. People’s possessions can imprison them in a world…

— Jim M. Perdue

“What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or…

— Mahatma Gandhi