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George Orwell Quotes - Page 11

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Does Big Brother exist? Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party. Does he exist in the same way as I exist? You do not exist.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

Brother, Party, Doe

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Animal, Two, Legs

Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Writing, People, Frightened

"Essays".

The more intelligent, the less sane

Intelligent, Sane, Ignorance In 1984

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Lying, Cities, Police

1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Country, War, Democracy

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

Soccer, Football, Fighting

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Children, People, Normal

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Past, Mind, World

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To 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. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

Art, Latin, Struggle

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.

Running, Fear, Animal

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Mistake, Party, Reality

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.189, Arcturus Publishing

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Writing, Good Writing, Thrive

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 squirting out ink.

Truth, Real, Political Language

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

Wall, Lying, Heart

George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Insanity, Minorities, Lunatic

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

Moving, Men, Thinking

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

Dirty, Reading, Thinking

George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

People, Looks, Want

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.36, Lulu.com

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Country, Civilization, Tea Drinking

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

Party, Past, Expression

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Judging, Atheism, Saint

Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Reflections on Gandhi"

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

Lying, Telling The Truth, Propaganda

1942 Diary entry,14 Mar.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

Mind, Enemy, Records

George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

Mind, Abyss, Poetry Is

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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