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George Orwell Quotes - Page 9

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Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Mean, Thinking, Orthodoxy

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Keeping Secrets, Nineteen, Kept Secrets

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

Strong, Simple, Gun

George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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

Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

Stupidity, Instinct, Cowardice

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Lonely, Being Sad, Atheism

George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.448, W. W. Norton & Company

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

Agreement, Orthodoxy, Facts

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness, Acceptance, Literature

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

Reality, Skulls, Mind

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.569, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

War, Winning, Power

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Issues, Discipline, Intellectual

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

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Men, Animal, Interest

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

Life, Regret, Decision

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

Suicide, Civilization, Hatred

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.203, Arcturus Publishing

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

Thinking, People, House

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

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

War, Practice, Long

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

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

Fashion, Lying, Believe

"Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Safe, Emotion, Life Is

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

War, Fighting, Soldier

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.

Lying, Book, Thinking

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

People, Ordinary, Behaviour

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.4, Lulu.com

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

Party, Reality, Views

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Art, Attitude, Should Have

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Running, Food, Gun

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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