3 December 2020 George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
3 December 2020 George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
3 December 2020 George Orwell In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
3 December 2020 George Orwell The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
3 December 2020 George Orwell It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
3 December 2020 George Orwell We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
3 December 2020 George Orwell In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
3 December 2020 George Orwell I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
3 December 2020 George Orwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
3 December 2020 George Orwell War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
3 December 2020 George Orwell As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
3 December 2020 George Orwell In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
3 December 2020 George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
3 December 2020 George Orwell 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 wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
