1984 question

Same result. Found many people quoting it, but with no context. Without context, I 'm always concerned the next sentence in a quote will be, "Of course, I disagree," and then where are you? It could be from his essays, but it sounds more like an ad hoc response in an interview, to my tin ear. Nothing in the Orwell Society, but they've been recently hacked, I gather.

It's hard not to be somewhat leery about quotes so widely used, but all without a single reference to source material. Appears, from what I saw, to have been used mainly in opposition to Hillary Clinton. I'll look in his essays tomorrow if I get a chance.

Good lesson for those who quote. Give source and context. There was apparently someone named Vera Btittain, a contemporary, who was not above misquoting him or stripping context.

I admire your sticktoitiveness.

EDIT: Two thoughts. I did read his review of Mein Kampf, wherein he circled around this conclusion, but didn't land on it, and two, I just finished Anything Is Possible, Elizabeth Strout's latest, and came away with an idea of the state of mind many voters may have been. It's not about the election, even remotely, but it's the first book I've read on a long time, it's fiction, ofcourse, but the first I've read in a long time that delved into the myriad sources of people's discontent and anger, but without stereotyping. I've been low income office worker all my life, but didn't understand how bone-marrow deep disaffection and desperation probably run in some people. Nothing to do with the price of eggs, really, just that I've been ruminating on Strout's book and its possible (maybe not intentional) bearing on the state of mind of so many. Hugely compassionate work.