The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Old Porteous’s mind, I thought, probably stopped working at about the time of the Russo-Japanese war. And it’s a ghastly thing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved… — 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
“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles… — 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
The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When are we going to attack? Why don’t we attack?’ were the questions you heard night and day from Spaniard and Englishman… — 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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — 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
“Meanwhile nothing happened, nothing ever happened. The English had got into the habit of saying that this wasn’t a war, it was… — 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
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — 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
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
“I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.… — 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
“I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.… — 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
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — 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
