One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — 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
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is… — 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
