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Made Quotes by George Orwell
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,…
- The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
- A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.…
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
- In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
- His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
- You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except…
- Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
- The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
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