The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what… — 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
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — 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
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.… — 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
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
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 choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — 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 the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — 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