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
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
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
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about. — 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
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who… — 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
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — 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
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. — 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
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
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — 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
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
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
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — 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
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
