The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — 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
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — 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 intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the… — 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
“As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of… — 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 party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart… — 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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