1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.

Se il partito poteva ficcare le mani nel passato e dire di questo o quell'avvenimento che non era mai accaduto, ciò non era forse ancora più terribile della tortura o della morte?

Tutto svaniva nella nebbia. Il passato veniva cancellato, la cancellazione dimenticata, e la menzogna diventava verità.

But of course it was an American paper. The Americans always go one better on any kinds of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering, or theosophy.

The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written record and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

Quem controla o passado, controla o futuro. Quem controla o presente, controla o passado.

Aún así, no era en eso donde ella y todos los otros animales habían puesto su esfuerzo y sus esperanzas.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.