1984 George Orwell

Love Your Big Brother: What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Tells Us About 2009

The likelihood of the United States, or Britain, or my native country, Canada, collapsing into a dictatorial police state as in George Orwell’s 1984 seems slight.

By
 / 11 June 2009
1984
George Orwell
Plume
May 2003
The Irony of American History
Reinhold Niebuhr
University of Chicago Press
April 2008

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” – 1984, George Orwell

“Here is a study in pessimism unrelieved, except by the thought that, if a man can conceive
Nineteen Eighty-Four, he can also will to avoid it. ” – Fredric Warburg, George Orwell’s publisher.

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