George Orwell Quotes
Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, India. He was better known as pen name George Orwell. His father name was Richard Walmesley Blair and mother Ida Mabel Blair. In 1904, Ida Mabel Blair was shifted to Oxfordshire with their children. George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm’ in 1945. The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. George Orwell was dead on 21 January 1950 at age of 46. Read George Orwell Quotes.
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
George Orwell
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
George Orwell
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
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