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Quotes About Rebellion

The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp.
~ George Orwell
Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelarán, y sin rebelarse no podrán tomar conciencia.
~ George Orwell
Without having read to the end of the book, he knew that that must be Goldstein's final message. The future belonged to the proles.
~ George Orwell
I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
~ George Orwell
Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.
~ George Orwell
Kitlelerin ne düÅŸündükleri ya da ne düÅŸünmedikleri, ilgilenmeye deÄŸmez bir sorun olarak görülmektedir.
~ George Orwell
Bilinçleninceye dek baÅŸkald?rmayacaklar, baÅŸkald?rmazlarsa da hiçbir zaman bilinçlenemeyecekler.
~ George Orwell
The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.
~ George Orwell
February your grandmother!
~ George Orwell
To die hating them, that was freedom
~ George Orwell
That was above all what he wanted to hear. Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire. That was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.
~ George Orwell
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.
~ George Orwell
The command of the old despotisms was Thou shalt not. The command of the totalitarians was Thou shalt. Our command is Thou are.
~ George Orwell
Winston sat in his usual corner, gazing into an empty glass. Now and again he glanced up at a vast face which eyed him from the opposite wall. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said. Unbidden, a waiter came and filled his glass up with Victory Gin, shaking into it a few drops from another bottle with a quill through the cork. It was saccharine flavoured with cloves, the speciality of the café.
~ George Orwell
Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon—and yet they will always survive.
~ George Orwell
God, if they'd only break out and rebel properly for once!' he said to Ellis before starting. 'But it'll be a bloody washout as usual. Always the same story with these rebellions—peter out almost before they've begun. Would you believe it, I've never fired my gun at a fellow yet, not even a dacoit. Eleven years of it, not counting the War, and never killed a man. Depressing.' 'Oh
~ George Orwell
To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.
~ George Orwell
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
~ George Orwell
From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of double- think- Greetings!
~ George Orwell
Sahtekarl???n evrensel düzeyde egemen olduÄŸu dönemlerde, gerçeÄŸi söylemek devrimci bir eylemdir.
~ George Orwell
The heresy of heresies was common sense. And
~ George Orwell
In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his
~ George Orwell
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.
~ George Orwell
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN
~ George Orwell