“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
— George Orwell“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
— George Orwell“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
— George Orwell“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
— George Orwell“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
— George Orwell“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
— George Orwell“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
— George Orwell“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
— George Orwell“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George OrwellThere is no end to the smells, and each one brings back some memory more deeply seated than the one before.
— George OrwellThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms.
— George Orwell