Orwell Quotes

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views...

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs...

O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.O’Bri...

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of ...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like...

Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into hi...

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolat...

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Th...

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I thin...

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like...