Quotes About Government

A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be truth. But no government, no big organisation, will pay for the truth.

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.

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

Does Big Brother exist? - Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party. - Does he exist in the same way as I exist? - You do not exist.

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.

the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth

George Orwell

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

It has been denied that any direct pressure was exerted by the Russian Government, but the point is not of great importance, for the Communist parties of all countries can be taken as carrying out Russian policy, and it is not denied that the Communist Party was the chief

It has been denied that any direct pressure was exerted by the Russian Government, but the point is not of great importance, for the Communist parties of all countries can be taken as carrying out Russian policy

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.

No se había comprendido por completo que la desaparición de la libertad económica tendría algún efecto sobre la libertad intelectual.

It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport — everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

If you look close enough and are in a bad mood, public service seems to be composed of paperwork and personal feuds.

How could a college dropout find himself, at the age of twenty-six, a government-funded rocket scientist?

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned, Sir Ralph would say, as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours?

The Presdt is an idiot.

It is dangerous to build systemic reforms on a close association with one particular government. Systemic reforms need broad public participation and support. That is what makes them irreversible.

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

George W. Bush

TARP] The strategy was a breakthrough intervention in the free market.