Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. George Orwell brainmenideas All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell sarcasmsarcasticfunny If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. George Orwell bigsbreakifs Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. George Orwell behalfviolencecan-do The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell nineteeninsightbook Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell deceptionpowerself The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. George Orwell surrendermachinesdrug In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. George Orwell get-moneytestsenergy You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. George Orwell politicalintellectualbelieve The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. George Orwell policecitieslying Serious sport is war minus the shooting. George Orwell squashsportswar I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. George Orwell fashionbelievelying There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later. George Orwell mindattitudebook It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours. George Orwell fightingsoldierwar For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. George Orwell ignorancerunningthinking Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. George Orwell illusionprogresswork To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell truthstrugglecourage He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother George Orwell takenbrotherstruggle One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. George Orwell catholicatheistreligion The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell militarywarpeace
