Society and the World
George Orwell
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
George Orwell
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
George Orwell
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell
Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings … these are not only fragments, but characteristic fragments, of the English scene.
