George Orwell Quotes (97+)

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.

Doublethink is the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.