The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven… — 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
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
I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — 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
