In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — 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
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to… — 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
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when… — 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
“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
“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
“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
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — 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
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
“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
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — 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 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
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact… — 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
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is… — 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
“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 spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One day they would decide to shoot him. You could not tell when it would happen, but a few seconds beforehand it… — 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
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” — 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
“ 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
“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
“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
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at… — 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
