top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Psychology quotes
"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."
"I am a mask, concealing the real."
"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
"Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first."
"Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched."
Explore more quotes by George Orwell
"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
"Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right."
"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."
"It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name."
"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
bottom of page