Quote About the Obvious by George Orwell
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
George Orwell
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George Orwell Quote About War Propaganda
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell
Authoritarians and Libertarians – Quote by George Orwell
“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
George Orwell
George Orwell Quote About the Past and Power
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past. He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”
George Orwell
George Orwell on Revolution and Dictatorship
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”
George Orwell
“Right thinking will be rewarded” – Quote by George Orwell
“Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.”
George Orwell
Quote About Objective Truth and Lies – George Orwell
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
George Orwell
“All Animals Are Equal” – Quote by George Orwell
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell
Murray Rothbard on the State and Freedom
“If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on the State and Private Economy
“The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society – far from satisfying the wants of consumers – are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.”
Murray Rothbard