To dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible with the first.
Animals look from Napoleon to Pilkington, from man to pig back to man, they find that they are unable to tell the difference.
To think, to think, even with a split second left – to think was the only hope.
Bisa dikatakan semakin mahal makanan, semakin banyak keringat dan ludah yang harus dimakan.
Whenever A is oppressing B, it is clear to people of good will that B ought to be independent, but then it always turns out that there is another group C, which is anxious to be independent of B. The question is how large must a minority be before it deserves autonomy.
You wanted a good time; “they,” meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could.
Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.
Quite likely he would be in the cellars of the Ministry of Love within three days, but a cigarette end must not be wasted.
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one’s intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake.
Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
Who cares?′ she said impatiently, ’it’s always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.
Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.
It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.
But even that was a memorable event in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
Baju adalah sesuatu yang berkuasa. Dengan berpakaian gelandangan, sangat sulit, untuk tidak merasakan bahwa kamu sedang mengalami penurunan status.
Se le persone non sanno scrivere bene allora non sanno pensare bene e se non sanno pensare bene altri penseranno per loro.
Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else – that is, it concentrates on an author’s style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his subject matter.