Quote #18875
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers...
Category Archives: George Orwell
Quote #18876
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps...
Quote #18877
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is...
Quote #18878
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one...
Quote #18879
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to...
Quote #18880
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely...
Quote #18881
…Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are...
Quote #18882
It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of...
Quote #18883
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Quote #18884
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and...