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Tag: George Orwell

(1903-1950) British author.

The goal of Newspeak

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 13, 2023Categories speechTags George Orwell

What goes around can come around

These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 22, 2022Categories intoleranceTags George Orwell

Ruling through fraud and force

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 30, 2022Categories socialismTags George Orwell

Disinformation

Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered … History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2022May 10, 2022Categories corruption, demagogues, evil, government, liberalismTags George Orwell

The two purposes of propaganda

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 18, 2022Categories politicsTags George Orwell

Political language

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 15, 2022Categories politicsTags George Orwell

Imposing the revolution

The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we,’ the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them,’ the Lower Orders.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021Categories collectivization, socialismTags George Orwell

Who are you going to believe?

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021Categories knowledgeTags George Orwell

Control

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021Categories educationTags George Orwell

Perpetual war

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 4, 2021Categories warTags George Orwell

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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