logo

Quotes About Influence

The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.
~ George Orwell
The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act, and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking. Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part
~ George Orwell
The first thing you must realize is that power is collective.
~ George Orwell
Don't let it happen, it's up to you
~ George Orwell
Quien controla el pasado controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente controla el pasado.
~ George Orwell
El resultado de predicar doctrinas totalitarias es que debilita el instinto que indica a las personas libres lo que es peligroso y lo que no.
~ George Orwell
Literature is an attempt to influence one's contemporaries through the recording of experience.
~ George Orwell
Bir domuz ile baÅŸka bir hayvan yolda kar??laÅŸt?klar?nda öteki hayvan kenara çekilerek domuza yol verecek ve bütün domuzlar Pazar günleri kuyruklar?na yeÅŸil kurdele takma ayr?laca??na sahip olacaklard?.
~ George Orwell
It's queer, the power of these rich men.
~ George Orwell
The freedom of the Press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion;
~ George Orwell
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.   It
~ George Orwell
what is important for my purpose is that it was during the "anti-Fascist" phase that the younger English writers gravitated towards Communism. The
~ George Orwell
It is obvious that a person who reads Mein Kampf must be a Fascist.
~ George Orwell
There is no such thing as a genuinely non-political literature, and least of all in an age like our own, when fears, hatreds, and loyalties of a directly political kind are near the surface of everyone's consciousness.
~ George Orwell
Power is power over human beings, above all over the mind. Power over matter, external reality as you would call it, is not important. We control matter because we control the mind, Reality is inside the skull.
~ George Orwell
Quien controla el pasado —decía la consigna del Partido— controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente controla el pasado.»
~ George Orwell
Quien controla el pasado", decía el lema del Partido, "controla el futuro: quien controla el presente controla el pasado".
~ George Orwell
lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
~ George Orwell
No se había comprendido por completo que la desaparición de la libertad económica tendría algún efecto sobre la libertad intelectual.
~ George Orwell
Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
~ George Orwell
Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.
~ George Orwell
tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls
~ George Orwell
quien controla al pasado controla al futuro. quien controla el presente controla al pasado.
~ George Orwell
Lo horrible de los Dos Minutos de Odio no era el que cada uno tuviera que desempeñar allí un papel sino, al contrario, que era absolutamente imposible evitar la participación porque era uno arrastrado irremisiblemente. A los treinta segundos no hacía falta fingir
~ George Orwell