The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who… — 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
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile. — 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
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because… — 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
You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved… — 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