If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — 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
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — 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
