THT + NEF AO3 Flashcards
“I have no time for any … that defines itself as the only religion…I abhor … too,”
“I have no time for any purist leftism that defines itself as the only religion…I abhor purist rightism too,”
“I prefer … fiction; …. fiction could really ….”
“I prefer speculative fiction; speculative fiction could really happen.”
“There was the risk it would be thought as … propaganda - the worst kind,”
“There was the risk it would be thought as feminist propaganda - the worst kind,”
“There is … in the book that … haven’t already done”
“There is nothing in the book that human beings haven’t already done”
“This is not a question of … this is a question of …”
“This is not a question of expect… this is a question of hope.”
“Humans have … built-in.”
“Humans have hope built-in.”
“I feel a sense of … not as a writer, but as a … We all should.”
“I feel a sense of responsibility not as a writer, but as a human being. We all should.”
“I remember one person saying a very telling thing: ‘Pray you will never have the occasion to be a …”
“I remember one person saying a very telling thing: ‘Pray you will never have the occasion to be a hero.” (Polish rebel in excile)
“Feminism cannot speak for …”
“Feminism cannot speak for every woman.”
“If women are equally …, then they are equally …”
“If women are equally human beings, then they are equally fallible.”
“Some people believe ‘… means … to do whatever they want to…That isn’t the … we are dealt with.”
“Some people believe ‘freedom means freedom to do whatever they want to…That isn’t the pack of cards we are dealt with.”
“With power comes responsibility.”
“With power comes responsibility.”
“People have … because we think they have …,”
“People have power because we think they have power,”
“If you think you have the one …It’s the … justifying the …”
“If you think you have the one faith…It’s the ends justifying the means.”
“… do involve… because men have different kinds of … than women do.”
“Love relationships do involve power structures because men have different kinds of power than women do.”
I write it because there is some … that I want to …, some fact to which I want to…, and my initial concern is to get a …If I had not been … about that I should not have written the book.
I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing…If I had not been angry about that I should not have written the book.
I do not think one can assess a writer’s … without knowing something of his…
I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development.
Every line of serious work that I have written since … has been, directly or indirectly, against … and for ….
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism.
If you pretend that it is merely an … which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are … a … from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a…
If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon.
All … is lies, even when one is telling the …
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
We are descending into an age were … and … make five when the … says so.
We are descending into an age were two and two make five when the leader says so.
The … individual is ceasing to …, or i should say the individual is ceasing to have the … of being …
The autonomous individual is ceasing to exist, or i should say the individual is ceasing to have the illusiton of being autonomous.
Every .. advance speeds up… and ….
Every scientific advance speeds up…nationalism and dictatorship.
I do not believe that any kind of … that I describe will necessarily … (allowing of course for the fact that the book is …)…- To an American Trade Unionist
I do not believe that any kind of society that I describe will necessarily arise (allowing of course for the fact that the book is satire)…- To an American Trade Unionist
The moral drawn from this … situation is a simple one. Don’t … It depends on …
The moral drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.
… if not fought, could … anywhere.
Totalitarianism if not fought, could triumph anywhere.
Behind … lurks Big Brother…,…,…, and any leader whom … utilises or .. E. M Forester
Behind Stalin lurks Big Brother…Churchill Truman, Gandhi and any leader whom propaganda utilises or invents. E. M Forester
Orwell is not actually writing a tract on … but a treatise on … Golo Mann
Orwell is not actually writing a tract on politics but a treatise on human nature. Golo Mann
“This reduced state of … is preferred to … conformity”
“This reduced state of consciousness is preferred to political conformity”
