The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” — 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
“purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. The” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or… — 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
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided: the Ministry of Truth, which… — 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
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues…” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. — 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
