3 George Orwell Quotes on Prediction

George Orwell quotes on prediction

85. But is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify oneself with visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing off the totalitarian world as a nightmare that can't come true, just remember that in 1925 the world of today would have seemed a nightmare that couldn't come true.

100. So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

134. The British did get out of India without fighting, an event which very few observers indeed would have predicted until about a year before it happened.