Quotes by George Orwell

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

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

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.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

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

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.

Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The futher a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Power is not a means, it is an end.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Big Brother is Watching You.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

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