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George Orwell Quotes - Page 24

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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

War, Party, Independent

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

Weakness is strength.

Bible, Weakness

Reality is inside the skull.

Reality, Skulls

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

Trying, Instinct, Hard

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

Lonely, Ghost

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

Writing, Mind, Trying

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

Safety, Soul, Together

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

Girl, Art, Law

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter the year But all throughout each day of the year There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

Niece, Years, Feelings

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.

Writing, Order, Long

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Dust, Knowing, True Life

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1280, Penguin UK

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Thinking, Ideas, People

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

Jobs, Leader, Revolution

George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.334, W. W. Norton & Company

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

Cat, Listening, Usual

David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.28, Barron's Educational Series

I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

Years, Opposites, Civilization

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Teacher, Children, Ideas

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Numbers, People, Important

"Shooting an Elephant" (1936)

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

Race, Racism, People

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

Beautiful, Style, Hips

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Atmosphere, Literature, Orthodoxy

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

Blow, Moon, Echoes

George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Taken, Kitchen, Ham

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.8, Hamilton Books

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

Wings, Two, Enemy

David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.33, Barron's Educational Series

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Technology, Men, Development

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

Country, Freedom Of Speech, Helpful

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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