I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of… — 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
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — 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
