If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL -
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELL -
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELL -
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELL -
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL -
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL -
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELL -
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL