George Orwell | Quotes Collection

"You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that." George Orwell

"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." George Orwell

"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." George Orwell

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink" George Orwell

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" George Orwell

"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." George Orwell

"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening" George Orwell

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." George Orwell

"Time does not pass more quickly than it used to, but we pass it more hurriedly" George Orwell

"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned." George Orwell

"Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose" George Orwell

"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges." George Orwell

"The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening," George Orwell

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." George Orwell