Quotes About Freedom

They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted. You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.

you do not escape from money by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on

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.

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

to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone:

George Orwell

George Orwell

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction

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.

See? You can have cartoons about any of the parties, but you mustn't put anything in favor of Socialism, because the police won't stand it. Once I did a cartoon of a boa constrictor marked Capital swallowing a rabbit marked Labour. The copper came along and saw it, and he says, 'You rub that out, and look sharp about it,' he says. I had to rub it out.

Freedom of speech and of the Press are usually attacked by arguments which are not worth bothering about.

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

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

Ziveti pod vedrim nebom, nikada ne provodeci vise od sat ili dva u zatvorenom, otupljuje i zaslepljuje mozak kao sto ti jaka svetlost zaslepi oci. Ponasas se, i planiras i patis, ali i dalje ti je sve nekako daleko, kao da ti je zivot izasao iz fokusa, kao da postaje nerealan. Svet, spoljnji i unutrasnji, kao da polako bledi dok ti ne postane nesto poput vecega sna.

The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies. What is really at issue is the right to report contemporary events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.

His eyes re-focused on the page. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action. And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

Four legs good, two legs bad.' This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.

As the Party slogan put it: 'Proles and animals are free.