Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with… — 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
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. — 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