So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was so important that she should understand something of what his life in this country had been; that she should grasp… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Winston: I don't know - I don't care. Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you. O'Brian: We… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — 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
![“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/636/george-orwell-57_adolf-hitler_hitler-has-grasped-the-falsity-of-the-he_1095773.jpg)
