George Orwell Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

• From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
  WAR IS PEACE
  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Ignorance

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

• 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

• The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Slavery, Misery

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.29, Barron's Educational Series

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