Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The political thoughts of George Orwell

“If liberty means 
anything at all, 
it means the right 
to tell people 
what they do not 
want to hear.”




“Who 
controls 
the past 
controls 
the future. 

Who 
controls 
the present 
controls 
the past.“




“The very 
concept of 
objective truth 
is fading out 
of the world. 

Lies will pass 
into history.”




“In our age 
there is 
no such thing 
as ‘keeping 
out of politics.’ 

All issues are 
political issues, 
and politics itself 
is a mass of lies, 
evasions, folly, 
hatred and 
schizophrenia.”



“So much 
of left wing 
thought 
is a kind 
of playing 
with fire, 
by people 
who don’t 
even know 
that fire 
 is hot.”



“Progress 
is not 
an illusion, 
it happens, 
but it is slow 
and invariably 
disappointing.” 



“But if thought 
corrupts language, 
language can also 
corrupt thought.“



“One does 
not establish
a dictatorship 
in order to 
safeguard 
a revolution; 
 One makes 
a revolution 
in order to 
establish a 
dictatorship.“