George Orwell
“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”
“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
