Quotes by George Orwell

“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.”

Topics: destroys, freedom, history

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

Topics: four, freedom, granted

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”

Topics: aims, conquer, earth

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Topics: history, narrow, newspeak

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Topics: against, already, creatures

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

Topics: even, history, make

“Good prose is like a windowpane.”

Topics: george, good, history

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

Topics: also, hide, history

“To think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.”

Topics: clearly, first, history

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.”

Topics: defence, history, jfk speech

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