Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious — 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
“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
“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
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. — 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
“How could you have a slogan like ‘freedom is slavery’ when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible… — 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
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
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — 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
