1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Truisms are true, hold on to that!

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave. Which side is winning is a matter of complete indifference to them. They are aware that a change of overlordship means simply that they will be doing the same work as before for new masters who treat them in the same manner as the old ones.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to becomeunconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party isalways right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself.

si todos disfrutasen por igual del lujo y del ocio, la gran masa de seres humanos, a quienes la pobreza suele imbecilizar, aprenderían muchas cosas y empezarían a pensar por sí mismos; y si empezaran a reflexionar, se darían cuenta más pronto o más tarde que la minoría privilegiada no tenía derecho alguno a imponerse a los demás y acabarían barriéndoles