“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” — 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
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — 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
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.” — 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
“Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about… — 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
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had '… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — 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
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
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any… — 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
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — 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
Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive… — 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
“And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to… — 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 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
