George OrwellBig Brother is watching you. ✨ Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)601Hope
George OrwellAnyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. … ▶361Hope
George OrwellNearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simp… ▶372Thought
George OrwellHas it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? ✨ George Orwell, A.… ▶361Truth
George OrwellI 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 age he lives in ... but before he… ▶351Thought
George OrwellOceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Har… ▶351Death
George OrwellTo survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.373Sadness
George OrwellLastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a t… ▶362LoveTruth
George OrwellComrades, he said, here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose thi… ▶362Reading
George OrwellThe cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her rea… ▶351Reading
George OrwellTo die hating them, that was freedom. ✨ George Orwell (2014). 1984, p.212, Arcturus Publishing351Death
George OrwellThe past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt351Time
George OrwellTo say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, pu… ▶351Politics
George OrwellIt is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. ✨ George Orwell (2012). Down and Out in Paris and London, p.36, Lulu.com351Humanity
George Orwell[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to free competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than … ▶362HumanityPoliticsReading
George OrwellHappiness can exist only in acceptance.374Hope
George OrwellReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is col… ▶352DeathHumanityThought
George OrwellHis answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Animal Farm, p.10, Hamilton Books374Reading
George OrwellThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.341Humanity
George OrwellPower-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to … ▶341PoliticsTime
George OrwellAlmost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed… ▶363HumanityReading
George OrwellIn the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and th… ▶363HumanityPoliticsTime
George OrwellThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeye… ▶374DeathTruth
George OrwellThe choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. ✨ George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays,… ▶331Humanity
George OrwellWhy was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? ✨ Nineteen Eighty-Four.353Love
George OrwellAll nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but the… ▶353Humanity
George OrwellTo write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence… ▶375Reflection
George OrwellProlonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reacti… ▶364Reading
George OrwellGood writing is like a windowpane.353Truth
George OrwellThe Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ✨ The Prevention of Literature (1946)353ReadingTruth
