The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious — 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
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
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whenever A is oppressing B, it is clear to people of good will that B ought to be independent, but then it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought… — 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
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
