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Thinking Quotes by George Orwell
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation…
- I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the…
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I…
- No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -…
- At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
- Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing…
- It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,…
- Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
- It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
- I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a…
- Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine…
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