Quotes from George Orwell

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. She

But we were glad of our tea after the cold, restless night. I do not know what tramps would do without tea, or rather the stuff they miscall tea.

It is forbidden to dream again; We maim our joys or hide them; Horses are made of chromium steel And little fat men shall ride them. Why I Write (1946)

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

IstniejÄ… cztery realne przyczyny utraty wÅ'adzy przez grupÄ™ rzÄ…dzÄ…cÄ…: zbrojna interwencja z zewnÄ…trz; tak nieudolne kierowanie paÅ"stwem, i? uciÅ›nione masy dokonujÄ… przewrotu; powstanie silnej i rozgoryczonej warstwy Å›redniej; utrata pewnoÅ›ci siebie i ochoty do rzÄ…dzenia. Jedna z tych przyczyn nie wystarczy; zwykle wystÄ™pujÄ…, w ró?nym stopniu, wszystkie cztery.

Postoje ideje koje su toliko pogrešne, da samo najinteligentnije osobe mogu u njih vjerovati.

Porque se lazer e segurança fossem desfrutados por todos igualmente, a grande massa de seres humanos que costuma ser embrutecida pela pobreza se alfabetizaria e aprenderia a pensar por si; e depois que isso acontecesse, mais cedo ou mais tarde essa massa se daria conta de que a minoria privilegiada não tinha função nenhuma e acabaria com ela. A longo termo, uma sociedade hierárquica só era possível num mundo de pobreza e ignorância.

If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.

Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move toward rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return

Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.

The heresy or heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

gambling, the cheapest of all luxuries.

Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian

JeÅ›li ktoÅ› pragnie rzÄ…dzi?, rzÄ…dzi? nieprzerwanie, musi umie? burzy? w poddanych poczucie rzeczywistoÅ›ci. Tajemnica sprawnych rzÄ…dów polega na Å'Ä…czeniu wiary we wÅ'asnÄ… nieomylno?? z umiejÄ™tnoÅ›ciÄ… wyciÄ…gania wniosków z wczeÅ›niej popeÅ'nianych bÅ'Ä™dów.

that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

En los momentos de crisis uno nunca lucha contra un enemigo externo, sino contra su propio cuerpo

they'll shoot me i don't care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother

Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower? "She's beautiful," he murmured. "She's a meter across the hips, easily," said Julia. "That is her style of beauty," said Winston.

Ac- cording to Chesterton, tea-drinking' is 'pagan', while beer- drinking is 'Christian', and coffee is 'the puritan's opium'.

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy—everything.

He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I love you.