The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — 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
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — 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
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
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply… — 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
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — 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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