The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLOf pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELLThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL