“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — 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
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And in every detail of your life, if no ultimate purpose redeemed it, there was a quality of greyness, of desolation, that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had '… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. — 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
