I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How could you have a slogan like ‘freedom is slavery’ when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
