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Animal Farm / 1984 QUOTES

Animal Farm / 1984 QUOTES

1 " In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands liberty of speech and of the press, one is not demanding absolute liberty. There always must be, or at any rate there always will be, some degree of censorship, so long as organised societies endure. But freedom, as Rosa Luxembourg [sic] said, is ‘freedom for the other fellow’. The same principle is contained in the famous words of Voltaire: ‘I detest what you say; I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ If the intellectual liberty which without a doubt has been one of the distinguishing marks of western civilisation means anything at all, it means that everyone shall have the right to say and to print what he believes to be the truth, provided only that it does not harm the rest of the community in some quite unmistakable way. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

2 " Sách cũng là một loại sản phẩm tiêu dùng cần được sản xuất, giống như giăm bông hoặc dây giầy vậy thôi. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

3 " One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

4 " ...the groveling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth and bloody clots of hair. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

5 " ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

6 " The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

7 " how men, when given power over other men, start to behave like pigs. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

8 " The idea is always bigger than the man’. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

9 " We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

10 " Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about how men, when given power over other men, start to behave like pigs. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

11 " Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

12 " Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

13 " The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

14 " Animal Farm is a warning to every reader. Beware the utopia; beware the perfect solution and the easy slogan; beware those who claim to know what is best for you; beware bombast and dogma; beware the death of doubt; beware those who do not practice what they preach. Beware the chosen. Beware the one and only true path. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

15 " the god in men is also the devil the moment it begins to masticate on the morsels of power. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

16 " But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness he said, lay in working "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

17 " As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the Nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

18 " It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

19 " In the past the Middle had made revolutions under the banner of equality, and then had established a fresh tyranny as soon as the old one was overthrown. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984

20 " It says, ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,’’ she announced finally. "

― George Orwell , Animal Farm / 1984