A Sampling of George Orwell

[R. P. McMurphy]

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
— George Orwell

"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."
— George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London)

"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
— George Orwell

"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
— George Orwell

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
— George Orwell

"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed."
— George Orwell (1984)

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."
— George Orwell

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
— George Orwell

[RandomThoughts]

1. That is one book, writen many decades ago.

How complex do you think social engineering in some think tanks is today.

[Doc_Technical]

2. Orwell's treatise on "newspeak" should be required reading.

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html