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“Reality 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 collective and immortal.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”

George Orwell book Politics and the English Language

Source: Politics and the English Language (1946)

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”

George Orwell

Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

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

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“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 book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 33
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“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!”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

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

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

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

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

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

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“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.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

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

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“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.”

George Orwell

“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.”

George Orwell

&quot;In Front of Your Nose&quot; http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose, Tribune (22 March 1946) <br class="br">Context: The point is that 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. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

“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.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“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?”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984