Quotes About Politics

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».*

All the best matadors were Fascists.

El lenguaje político —y, aunque con variaciones, esto es cierto en el caso de todos los partidos, desde los conservadores hasta los anarquistas— está diseñado para que las mentiras suenen a verdad y los asesinatos parezcan algo respetable; para dar aspecto de solidez a lo que es puro humo.

Looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.

Every intelligent boy of sixteen is a Socialist. At that age one does not see the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.

Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.   It

Every Communist is in fact liable at any moment to have to alter his most fundamental convictions, or leave the party. The unquestionable dogma of Monday may become the damnable heresy of Tuesday, and so on.

what is important for my purpose is that it was during the "anti-Fascist" phase that the younger English writers gravitated towards Communism. The

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.

Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictator-ship.

one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring some improvement by starting at the verbal end....Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- 'Politics and the English Language,' 1946

Los marxistas claman a los cuatro vientos que la "libertad burguesa" es una ilusión, mientras una creencia muy extendida actualmente argumenta diciendo que la única manera de defender la democracia es a través de métodos totalitarios.

Dans des temps de tromperie généralisée, le seul fait de dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire.

that dreary phenomenon, the middle-class person who is an ardent Socialist at twenty-five and a sniffish Conservative at thirty-five...

Bu kapitalist bir sava? ve Britanya emperyalizmi ya?ma u?runa sava??yor diye s?zlanan solcular?n kafas? geriye bakacak ?ekilde vidalanm??.

Bu insan gruplar? aras?nda ne pasifistler ne komünistler ne de Kara Gömlekliler kendi çabas?yla büyük çapl? bir sava?? durdurun hareketi oluÅŸturabilir. Fakat teslim olma koÅŸullar?n?n pazarl???n? yapan hain bir hükümet için iÅŸlerin kolaylaÅŸmas?na yard?mc? olabilirler. Frans?z komünistleri gibi, milyonerlerin yar? bilinçli ajanlar?na dönüÅŸebilirler.

Tal como acontece com a religião cristã, a pior propaganda para o socialismo são seus adeptos.

There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For

Broadly speaking, Communist propaganda depends upon terrifying people with the (quite real) horrors of Fascism.

is in the ranks of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

Kau sudah pernah melakukan ini? Tentu. Ratusan kali -- yah, setidaknya puluhan kali. Dengan anggota Partai. Ya. Selalu dengan anggota Partai. Dengan anggota Partai Inti? Tidak dengan celeng-celeng itu! Emoh. Tapi, banyak dari mereka yang mau kalau saja ada peluang sekecil apa pun. Mereka tidak sesuci lagaknya.

It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.