“Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But a child’s belief in its own shortcomings is not much influenced by facts.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did… — 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
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
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic;… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had '… — 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
“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
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the… — 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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