“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the ruth is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some… — 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
“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
