“Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Countless other words such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic;… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that… — 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 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
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Winston: I don't know - I don't care. Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you. O'Brian: We… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious… — 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
