Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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 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 ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
GEORGE ORWELLMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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