If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
George OrwellRead
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that the working class, or 'proles', hold the key to change and hope in society.
George Orwellβs quote, 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles,' suggests that in a society rife with oppression and inequality, the true potential for change and a better future rests within the working class. The proles, representing the vast majority of the population, are seen as more capable of fostering hope and initiating revolutionary change compared to the ruling elite, making them essential for societal renewal.
Themes
HopeProlesChangeSocietyWorking Class
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about social justice and the power of the working class.
More from George Orwell
All quotes βThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George OrwellRead
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
George OrwellRead
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George OrwellRead
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George OrwellRead
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
George OrwellRead
Similar quotes
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawRead
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. SwindollRead
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott CardRead
Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.
Paul KalanithiRead
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin ScorseseRead
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.
Beryl MarkhamRead