There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — 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
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — 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
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — 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
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,… — 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
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — 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
