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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
By George Orwell
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
By George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
By George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity
By 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.
By George Orwell
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
By George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
By George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
By George Orwell
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
By George Orwell
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
By George Orwell
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
By George Orwell
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
By George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
By George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
By George Orwell
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
By George Orwell
...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.
By George Orwell