“He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I understand how: I do not understand why”? It was when you thought about why that you doubted your own sanity.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this,… — 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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