To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — 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
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. — 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
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — 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
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — 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
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two… — 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
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — 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
