George Orwell Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Our World

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

  George Orwell

  War, Winning, Differences

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Progress, Literature

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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