1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes

The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. 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.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

Era solo. Il passato era morto, il futuro era inimmaginabile. Quale certezza poteva avere che anche una sola delle creature allora viventi era dalla parte sua?

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had the right to,