Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers. George Orwell readingdirtythinking Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. George Orwell libertyfreedomdog All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. George Orwell skullslongbelieve It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. George Orwell mysterious-thingsmindloss To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. George Orwell nineteenairlong Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. George Orwell partyexpressionpast By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship. George Orwell doctrineleaderhatred Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. George Orwell 1984-importantnineteendoe To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. George Orwell totalitarianismdoecountry No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. George Orwell saintalcoholdoubt No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. George Orwell farmscausesanimal People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence. George Orwell sleeppeopleinteresting I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists. George Orwell agentslyingfirsts The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. George Orwell libertarianlibertyperfect Rich people are poor people with money. George Orwell richpoorpeople He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. George Orwell lonelybrokenlong Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing. George Orwell hatewritingmen Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. George Orwell lonelinessworrymean Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull. George Orwell voiceeyedoors The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty. George Orwell povertylibertywould-be
