“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
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into… — 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
“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
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
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years… — 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
“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting -- I… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“I said. ‘It seems to me that when you take a man’s money away he’s fit for nothing from that moment.’ ‘No,… — 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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened —that, surely,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — 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
“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — 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
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
“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
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
