Quotes from George Orwell

Kuigi ma pidin otsima ja ka otsisin õigeid sõnu, paistsin ma tegevat neid kirjanduslikke pingutusi peaaegu vastu tahtmist, mingi välise sunni ajel.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

If you've got any education, it don't matter to you if you're on the road for the rest of your life... If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against

Los Altos quieren quedarse donde están. Los Medianos tratan de arrebatarles sus puestos a los Altos. La finalidad de los Bajos, cuando la tienen -porque su principal característica es hallarse aplastados por las exigencias de la vida cotidiana-, consiste en abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en que todos los hombre sean iguales.

It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship.

The sense of being an impostor (what teacher has not felt it at times?) was heavy upon her.

Dopóki nie poÅ'Ä…czy ich Å›wiadomo??, nigdy sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…; dopóki sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…, nie stanÄ… siÄ™ Å›wiadomi.

No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannize over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

Bu insan gruplar? aras?nda ne pasifistler ne komünistler ne de Kara Gömlekliler kendi çabas?yla büyük çapl? bir sava?? durdurun hareketi oluÅŸturabilir. Fakat teslim olma koÅŸullar?n?n pazarl???n? yapan hain bir hükümet için iÅŸlerin kolaylaÅŸmas?na yard?mc? olabilirler. Frans?z komünistleri gibi, milyonerlerin yar? bilinçli ajanlar?na dönüÅŸebilirler.

You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.

There was truth and untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Sloboda je pravo da se ljudima govori ono što oni ne žele ?uti.

Tal como acontece com a religião cristã, a pior propaganda para o socialismo são seus adeptos.

Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police

To sum up. A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure.

And then a voice from the telescreen was singing: 'Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.' The three men never stirred. But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears. And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing at what he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.

losing your job does not mean that you cease to be a human being.

There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force?

Za one koji žele upravljati nama, rat je mir, sloboda je robovanje, a neznanje je snaga.

The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape

He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.