George Orwell Quotes

“The object of power is power.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power tyranny

“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power pain obedience

“Tragedy . . . belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:friendship

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:reality mind consciousness

“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:words

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:words thought

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:stupidity intelligence

“So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:nature work

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:reason madness

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