Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. — 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
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop… — 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
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — 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
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
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could… — 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
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — 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
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people… — 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
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — 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
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And… — 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
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