“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who… — 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
It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing:… — 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
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary… — 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
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you… — 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
