Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. — 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
“You wanted a good time; "they," meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.” — 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
“..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
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of… — 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
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless… — 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
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one… — 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
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They had decided that BO and halitosis were worked out, or nearly, and had been racking their brains for a long time… — 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
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — 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
“For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have… — 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
“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. — 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
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.” — 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. ” — 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
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