“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — 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
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He knew in advance what O’Brien would say: that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. […] The implied objective of this line of thought… — 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
