1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Under the spreading chestnut treeI sold you and you sold me--

I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.

„Până nu devin comștienți, nu se vor răzvrăti și până nu se răzvrătesc, nu pot deveni conștienți” - 1984