“For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.” — 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
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — 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
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
“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
Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the… — 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
“And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look… — 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
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my… — 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
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that… — 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
“It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. The subsidiary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One day they would decide to shoot him. You could not tell when it would happen, but a few seconds beforehand it… — 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
“As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — 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
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees… — 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
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you… — 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
![“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/837/george-orwell-57_begging_in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing_1334346.jpg)
