I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention… — 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
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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