You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her.
George OrwellThe 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 OrwellTags: hypocrisy contradiction doublethink
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George OrwellA man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
George OrwellTags: observation
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George OrwellTags: philosophy humour goodness human-nature
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George OrwellTags: 1984
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
George OrwellPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
George OrwellTags: patriotism
The modern emphasis on what is called 'clean fun' is really the symptom of a general unwillingness to touch upon any serious or controversial subject.
George OrwellYou are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
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