Quotes About Influence

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." From Politics and the English Language, not 1984.

In order to hate imperialism, you have got to be part of it.

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens

Men are infinitely malleable.

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.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.

But every writer, especially every novelist, has a 'message,' whether he admits it or not, and the minutest details of his work are influenced by it. All art is propaganda.

Words are such feeble things.

It's queer what an inch or two of fat can do.

Who controls the past controls the future.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

Quien controla el presente controla el pasado y quien controla el pasado controlará el futuro.