Looks Quote by John Pilger

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks…

— John Pilger

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

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

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

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

— Anonymous

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least…

— Ramez Naam

“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant aspect of…

— Jonathan Lethem

Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration…

— Fred Barnes

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

— George Saintsbury

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

— James Thurber

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing…

— Melvin Burgess