Quotes from George Orwell

Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

Nesse jogo que estamos jogando, não temos como vencer. Alguns tipos de fracassos são melhores que outros.

It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.

They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings; for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls

Y, ¡sí!, ocurrió casi como en un sueño. Casi con la misma habilidad que había imaginado, se quitó la ropa y la arrojó a un lado con aquel gesto majestuoso que parecía aniquilar a toda una civilización

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

then the lie passed into history and became truth.

I will explain to you what is the true meaning of love—what is the true sensibility, the higher, more refined pleasure which is known to civilized men alone. I will tell you of the happiest day of my life. Alas, but I am past the time when I could know such happiness as that. It is gone for ever—the very possibility, even the desire for it, are gone.

Every man has the face he deserves at fifty

Una vez que tu horario se convierte en tu propio, todo lo demás se vuelve insignificante.

Il paradiso terrestre era caduto in discredito proprio quando la sua realizzazione era diventata possibile.

La vida de un animal es solo miseria y esclavitud; esta es la pura verdad.

Normalno?? nie jest kwesti? statystyki.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched. A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum.

It is always so with titled people, they are either adored or hated.

the tendency towards mechanization which had become quasi-instinctive throughout almost the whole world

If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

El hombre es el único ser que consume sin producir. No da leche, no pone huevos, es demasiado débil para tirar del arado y no es capaz de correr suficientemente rápido como para atrapar conejos.

He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

Spotkamy siÄ™ tam, gdzie nie ma mroku.

En nuestra sociedad, aquellos que saben mejor lo que está ocurriendo son a la vez los que están más lejos de ver al mundo como realmente es. En general, a mayor comprensión, mayor autoengaño: los más inteligentes son en esto los menos cuerdos.

One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it?

The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.