A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious! — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail… — 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
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — 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
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — 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