George Orwell Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

• The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

  George Orwell

  Perfect, Liberty, Libertarian

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.44, Arcturus Publishing

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

  George Orwell

  Order, Doe, Revolution

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

• Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

  George Orwell

  Humor, Tiny, Revolution

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Party, Russia

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

  George Orwell

  Revolution

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Leader, Revolution

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.334, W. W. Norton & Company

• Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

  George Orwell

  Political, Revolution, Needs

  'Inside the Whale' (1940) 'Charles Dickens'

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