Quotes About Society

Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.

It had driven into her a far deeper understanding than she had had before of the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: Thou shalt not lose thy job.

That was what the Army did to you. It turned you into an imitation gentleman and gave you a fixed idea that there'd always be a bit of money coming from somewhere.

Society is wrong somewhere at the root.

Dickens hardly writes of war, even to denounce it.

Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?

But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

Çürüyorsun, dedi; parça parça da??l?yorsun. Sen nesin, biliyor musun? Bir pislik torbas?. Åžu sana bakan ÅŸeyi görüyor musun? Son insan bu iÅŸte. Sen insansan, iÅŸte insanl?k bu. Åžimdi giy ÅŸu giysilerini bakal?m.

As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the Nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired.

If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole.

The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

Who denounced you?" said Winston. "It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.

the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

La guerra la lleva a cabo cada grupo gobernante contra sus propios gobernados, y el objetivo de la guerra no es hacer o impedir conquistas territoriales, sino conservar intacta la estructura de la sociedad.

But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen.

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.

Todos los niños son unos cerdos.

I am not saying, of course, that most tramps are ideal characters; I am only saying that they are ordinary human beings, and that if they are worse than other people it is the result and not the cause of their way of life.

And in all of us there is at least a tinge of that habit of mind. In every country in the world the large army of scientists and technicians, with the rest of us panting at their heels, is marching along the road of 'progress' with the blind persistence of a column of ants.

there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.

In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To