“How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. — 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
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