And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans… — 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