"The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action." (George Orwell, 1941)
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (George Orwell, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", 1945)
"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." (George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose", Tribune, 1946)
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows" (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"In the long run, a hierarchal society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"The best books [...] are those that tell you what you know already." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
"Who controls the past [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell, "1984", 1949)
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