“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the… — 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
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
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you,… — 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
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — 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
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created… — 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
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are… — 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
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — 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 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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