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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Conformity, Mind, Society, Control, Awareness

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

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More George Orwell Quotes

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”

Power, Control, Society, Influence, Struggle

“After 40, a man is responsible for his face.”

Aging, Responsibility, Identity, Appearance, Self-Reflection

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

Politics, Division, Authority, Freedom, Ideology

“One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.”

Sensitivity, Civilization, Emotion, Society, Discomfort

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Violence, Society, Security, Protection, Reality

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

Animals, Life, Age, Experience, Perspective

“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”

Liberalism, Power, Critique, Politics, Irony

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”

Language, Thought, Corruption, Influence, Tradition

“The more intelligent, the less sane.”

Intelligence, Sanity, Paradox, Perception, Wisdom

“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

Change, Time, Identity, Memory, Reflection

“Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.”

Children, Ideas, Individuality, Growth, Guidance

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

Education, Discipline, Tradition, Society, Critique

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.”

Emotion, Love, Rebellion, Fear, Freedom

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

Labor, Freedom, Control, Choice, Consequence

“I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?”

Identity, Body, Perception, Transformation, Potential

“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”

Democracy, Politics, Perception, Society, Ideology

“They fear love because it creates a world they can’t control.”

Love, Fear, Control, Emotion, Freedom

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

War, Defense, Propaganda, Society, Conflict

“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”

Patriotism, Conservatism, Identity, Change, Society

“Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.”

Surveillance, Safety, Resistance, Privacy, Paranoia