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
“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
“In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions,” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“ April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age… — 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
“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
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — 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
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — 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
