Active Quote by George Orwell

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

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

“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

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

“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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

— George Orwell

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

“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

“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

“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

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

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

— George Orwell