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“To defend the indefensible, George Orwell once observed, political figures employ language that consists largely of “euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”

— Jack Cashill

“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his…

— Jack L. Chalker

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

— Karl Marx

“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four”

— Stanley Bing

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely…

— George Woodcock

“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police tyranny, under…

— John Lukacs

“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

— W. H. Auden

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”   -         George Orwell”

— Bō Jinn

“They all think they have everything under control, when, in fact, they control nothing.”

— Paulo Coelho

“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.”

— Brutus