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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterized by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
George Orwell, 1984
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.”
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“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.”
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
“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.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”