He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic… — 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
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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