The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,… — 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
The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into… — 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 struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is… — 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
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. — 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
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — 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
