“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be… — 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
“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To” — 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
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials… — 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
“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
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
