The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell endlessparty His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto. George Orwell mottoproblemanswers It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children George Orwell normalchildrenpeople While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them. George Orwell gamestwocountry Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. George Orwell moneywritingbook For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? George Orwell twosciencepast A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today George Orwell united-statespoliticaleurope The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. George Orwell tendencieswipeclass The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men George Orwell fightingrealnight This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. George Orwell tyrannyhalfanimal It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. George Orwell heritagesaneheard It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. George Orwell tragedyhalfway As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell advertisingpoliticalchristian A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. George Orwell naughtynastydirty To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. George Orwell recordsmindenemy All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. George Orwell propagandahandsart I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. George Orwell libertyfreedomthinking The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. George Orwell charming-smileclotheswisdom All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue. George Orwell partystrugglecountry The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about. George Orwell tyrannycareparty
