“Quien controla el pasado —decía la consigna del Partido— controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente controla el pasado” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He did not suppose, from what he could remember of her, that she had been an unusual women, still less an intelligent… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one… — 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
