It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — 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
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — 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
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people.… — 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
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist. — 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
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children — 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
