“..all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him..” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.” — 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
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. — 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
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the… — 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
“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
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — 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
“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
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
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — 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
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the… — 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
“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.” — 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
“Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
![“The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/george-orwell-57_average_the-major-problem-of-our-time-is-the-dec_683396.jpg)
