“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — 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
“His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“OBEDIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — 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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