Quotes

William wants me to use my own words in my work. So I thought I'd do some research on quotes linking to politics/society. See if I can get some inspiration.

The first person I looked at was George Orwell, as we spoke about him and he is famous for making a point about society in his literature. 

'Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to here'

'Political language.... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.'

'In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics' all issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.' 

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

'Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.'

'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.'

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

'Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.'

'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'

'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.'

'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.'

'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.'

'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'

'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'


'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.'

'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'


'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.'


'Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.'

Quote Source
I then looked at Karl Marx as he wanted a different society and spoke against 'The Ruling Class'

'Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!'

'In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.'

'Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.'

'The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

'For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.'

'Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.'

Quote Source

'Politics have no relation to morals.' - Niccolo Machiavelli

'It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.' - Joseph Stalin

'I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.' Will Rogers

Quote Source