Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — 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
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions — 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
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — 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
