The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues…” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become… — 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
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