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
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
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — 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
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
In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — 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
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
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
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
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I… — 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
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
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
