Quotes About Oppression

Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments and vaporisations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.

Todos los que sostienen esa postura no se dan cuenta de que, al apoyar los métodos totalitarios, llegará un momento en que esos métodos serán usados contra ellos y no por ellos. Haced una costumbre del encarcelamiento de fascistas sin juicio previo y tal vez este proceso no se limite solo a los fascistas.

You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.

George Orwell

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN

Perché non gridavano mai così contro le cose che contavano?

In un regime la memoria è colpa.

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.

theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother—

George Orwell

It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,'' she announced finally.

Everything in our age conspires to turn the writer, and every other kind of artist as well, into a minor official, working on themes handed to [him] from above and never telling what seems to him the whole of the truth. But in struggling against this fate he gets no help from his own side: that is, there is no large body of opinion which will assure him that he is in the right.

George Orwell

Todos los hombres son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'.

But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.

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.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

Enquanto existirem sociedades organizadas, sempre deve existir, ou pelo menos sempre haverá de existir, algum grau de censura. (apêndices - George Orwell)

Doze vozes gritavam, cheias de ódio, e eram todas iguais. Não havia dúvida, agora, quanto ao que sucedera à fisionomia dos porcos. As criaturas de fora olhavam de um porco para um homem, de um homem para um porco e de um porco para um homem outra vez; mas já era impossível distinguir quem era homem, quem era porco.

If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.

posterior, afirma: «Un miliciano era un soldado que luchaba contra Franco, pero también un peón en la titánica lucha que se estaba librando entre dos teorías políticas».*