Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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 best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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 ORWELL