Quotes from George Orwell

A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone.

BaÄŸl?l?k, düÅŸünmemek demektir, düÅŸünmeye gerek duymamak demektir. BaÄŸl?l?k bilinçsizliktir.

Nada hay que temer de los proletarios. Dejados aparte, continuarán, de generación en generación y de siglo en siglo, trabajando, procreando, y muriendo, no sólo sin sentir impulsos de rebelarse, sino sin la facultad de comprender que el mundo podría ser diferente de lo que es.

These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and especially against the lethal temptation to exchange freedom for security: a bargain that invariably ends up with the surrender of both.

el nuevo grupo de los Altos, a diferencia de sus predecesores, no actuaba ya por instinto, sino que sabía lo que necesitaba hacer para salvaguardar su posición. Los privilegiados se habían dado cuenta desde hacía bastante tiempo de que la base más segura para la oligarquía es el colectivismo.

At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today to believe that the past is unalterable.

We may be together for another six months -a year- there's no knowing. At the end we're certain to be apart. Do you realise how utterly alone we shall be? When once they get hold of us there will be nothing, literally nothing, that either of us can do for the other.

It would probably be quite easy to extract a sort of beauty, as Arnold Bennett did, from the blackness of the industrial towns; one can easily imagine Baudelaire, for instance, writing a poem about a slag-heap. But the beauty or ugliness of industrialism hardly matters.

Morrer odiando-os — liberdade era isso.

is in the ranks of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelaran, y sin rebelarse no podran tomar conciencia.

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

SavaÅŸta yani tehlikede olmak duygusu, yaÅŸaman?n tek çözüm yolu olarak bütün gücün s?n?rl? bir zümrenin eline verilmesini hakl? gösterir.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We

La guerra es paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza.

Almost any situation is bearable if you have a home to go back to and a family who will stand by you. With

Je?li chce si? zachowa? tajemnic?, nale?y ukry? j? nawet przed sob?.

Visi gyv?nai lyg?s, bet kai kurie gyv?nai lygesni už kitus.

It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport — everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.

Bir kad?nla on beÅŸ y?ld?r ya??yorsan?z onsuz bir hayat? düÅŸünemez hale gelirsiniz. Dünyan?z?n bir parças?d?r o. Diyelim ki güneÅŸin veya ay?n baz? özellikleri hoÅŸunuza gitmiyor; onlar? yine de gerçekten deÄŸiÅŸtirmek ister misiniz?

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form—'English Socialism'

The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier – even quicker, once you have the habit – to say In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.

Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.

A word contains its opposite in itself. Take 'good,' for instance. If you have a word like 'good,' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well—better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not.