Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — 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