1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

Ama okuduktan sonra, aklını kaçırmış olmadığını eskiden daha iyi anlamıştı. İnsanın azınlıkta olması, tek kişilik bir azınlık olması bile, deli olduğu anlamına gelmiyordu. Bir doğru vardı, bir de doğru olmayan; doğruya sarıldığın zaman, tüm dünyayı karşına bile alsan, deli olmuyordun.

Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.

I don’t imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there—small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The point is that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing.