In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — 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
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — 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
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and… — 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
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
