George Orwell January 1, 2023
Selected Quotations by George Orwell on Nationalism
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”
“The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs.”