George Orwell Quotes About Totalitarianism
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
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In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
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Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
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