Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let… — 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
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — 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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