You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. George Orwell emotion safe life-is For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years. George Orwell writing running past To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. George Orwell survival fighting dirty We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary. George Orwell patriot strange revolutionary A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren? George Orwell grandchildren regret tree If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. George Orwell care love-you men Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. George Orwell serious-work democratic-socialism lines In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. George Orwell dark country thinking Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. George Orwell punishment jobs people It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. George Orwell want people looks So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. George Orwell home football children Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell badass intelligent imagination Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. George Orwell frightened writing people Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now? George Orwell mean years thinking Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist. George Orwell party brother doe Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. George Orwell interest animal men The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. George Orwell patriotic democracy justice The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. George Orwell gathering beer children The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell animal pigs men 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 reading dirty thinking
