If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“..all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him..” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — 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
“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact… — 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
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. ” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. — 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
![“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. [..] The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/606/george-orwell-57_time_throughout-recorded-time-and-probably-si_3114018.jpg)
