Orwell on Freedom Quotes

“The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“What we call democracy in a capitalist country only remains in being while things are going well; in time of difficulty it turns immediately into Fascism.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“In a world where everything could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“The freedom of the Press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion;”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom

“Why not let the machine do the work and the men go and do something else? But presently the question arises, what else are they to do?”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Freedom