Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.
George Orwell
Awareness, Society, Inequality, Perspective, Ignorance
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“Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.” George Orwell
Privacy, Solitude, Freedom, Value, Society
George Orwell Privacy, Solitude, Freedom, Value, Society“The choice before human beings is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.” George Orwell
Ethics, Morality, Choice, Dilemma, Human Nature
George Orwell Ethics, Morality, Choice, Dilemma, Human Nature“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.” George Orwell
Life, Age, Character, Destiny, Reflection
George Orwell Life, Age, Character, Destiny, Reflection“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” George Orwell
Tyranny, Control, Power, Fraud, Authority
George Orwell Tyranny, Control, Power, Fraud, Authority“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.” George Orwell
Friendship, Trust, Ideals, Animal, Allegory
George Orwell Friendship, Trust, Ideals, Animal, Allegory“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell
Control, Class, Routine, Struggle, Society
George Orwell Control, Class, Routine, Struggle, Society“Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behavior whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.” George Orwell
Snobbishness, Hypocrisy, Behavior, Society, Perception
George Orwell Snobbishness, Hypocrisy, Behavior, Society, Perception“The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.” George Orwell
Communism, Patriotism, Identity, Society, Intellectualism
George Orwell Communism, Patriotism, Identity, Society, Intellectualism“Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.” George Orwell
Politics, Choices, Morality, Society, Dilemma
George Orwell Politics, Choices, Morality, Society, Dilemma“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.” George Orwell
Human Nature, Life, Materialism, Satire, Biology
George Orwell Human Nature, Life, Materialism, Satire, Biology“The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” George Orwell
Media, Belief, Influence, Propaganda, Control
George Orwell Media, Belief, Influence, Propaganda, Control“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” George Orwell
Safety, Protection, Violence, Sacrifice, Security
George Orwell Safety, Protection, Violence, Sacrifice, Security“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.” George Orwell
Media, Censorship, Advertising, Information, Control
George Orwell Media, Censorship, Advertising, Information, Control“The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.” George Orwell
Orthodoxy, Literature, Prose, Creativity, Expression
George Orwell Orthodoxy, Literature, Prose, Creativity, Expression“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell
Future, Oppression, Power, Brutality, Dystopia
George Orwell Future, Oppression, Power, Brutality, Dystopia“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word – Man.” George Orwell
Humanity, Problems, Society, Existence, Unity
George Orwell Humanity, Problems, Society, Existence, Unity“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” George Orwell
Totalitarianism, Power, Society, Corruption, Fraud
George Orwell Totalitarianism, Power, Society, Corruption, Fraud“Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.” George Orwell
Strength, Animal, Loyalty, Work, Sacrifice
George Orwell Strength, Animal, Loyalty, Work, Sacrifice