“Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To prevent us from shooting each other in the darkness white armlets would be worn. At this moment a messenger arrived to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting -- I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The moral is, never be sorry for a waiter. Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. The subsidiary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.” — 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
