One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Do not imagine that you will save yourself, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“OBEDIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Is there anyone who has ever written so much as a love letter in which he felt that he had said exactly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' — 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