“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — 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
“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed… — 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
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — 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
