George Orwell: Trending quotes (page 16)

“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

“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.”

“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!”

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”

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

“You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.”

“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”

“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 impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

“Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.”

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”

“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

“If you canthat staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

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