Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was… — 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
“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
“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling… — 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
