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38d194f Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell
c63f70e Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. inspirational George Orwell
539e1ce War is peace war freedom inspirational ignorance George Orwell
0720d79 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. war inspirational ignorance George Orwell
7be1610 All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell
1cc6edd The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. reading George Orwell
3f1a89a The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. man animals satirical George Orwell
dcc768f If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. George Orwell
c823a9c It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. opening-lines dystopia first-sentence George Orwell
b2a6666 If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever. George Orwell
b9b9808 We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. George Orwell
ef9d805 But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. power-of-words propaganda thought George Orwell
af08910 Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell
e1f81b7 Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. rebel George Orwell
8a7c19e Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the .. George Orwell
7ad1419 In the face of pain there are no heroes. George Orwell
4037b95 If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. George Orwell
c746232 Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. George Orwell
e6f2d32 Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. George Orwell
56caa67 The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. truth wisdom George Orwell
137514b Big Brother is Watching You. George Orwell
37a104f It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. George Orwell
8da22cb Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell
7343882 Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. mind human reality intellectual George Orwell
1bedc3a The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. George Orwell
c57e002 I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. nineteen-eighty-four George Orwell
367d2c5 Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. inspirational George Orwell
f12f252 For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? science philosophy ontology metaphysics logic psychology George Orwell
6a63f0d On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. humour philosophy human-nature George Orwell
2fd7e2d Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. George Orwell
e07f1c9 It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. George Orwell
4ab1149 If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right. inspirational George Orwell
cead5a1 It is worth saying something about the social position of beggars, for when one has consorted with them, and found that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help being struck by the curious attitude that society takes towards them. People seem to feel that there is some essential difference between beggars and ordinary 'working' men. They are a race apart--outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes. Working men 'work', beggars do not 'w.. George Orwell
e442388 Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone take.. politics public system law George Orwell
4dd7fbb How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? George Orwell
aea5a1b They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. I had never heard of a man or an animal getting a bullet through the middle of the neck and surviving it. The blood was dribbling out of the comer of my mouth. 'The artery's gone,' I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, pres.. George Orwell
52eb60f The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly and the true had got t.. George Orwell
292fcfb The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - since some of Dali's pictures would tend to poison the imagination like a pornographic postcard - on life itself. What Dali has done and what he has imagined is debatable, but in his outlook, his character, the bedrock decency of a human being does not exist. He is as anti-social as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in .. George Orwell
0b8f85b Aqui ya no estamos (solo) ante lo que habitualmente reconocemos como <> e identificamos con la buena escritura. Aqui estamos, repito, ante energia visionaria. Y no todas las visiones se refieren al futuro, o al Mas Alla. UMBERTO ECO George Orwell
0a0e120 One is almost driven to the cynical conclusion that men are only decent when they are powerless. George Orwell
36aedfb Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. George Orwell
1847287 Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell
db191d6 Decline of the English Murder George Orwell
b3c255c The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. George Orwell
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