George Orwell, 1984 quotes
"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
Take this quote mobile"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
"Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."