Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
George OrwellIf 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.
George OrwellIt is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
George OrwellYou will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
George OrwellTo the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live aloneโ to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink โ greetings!
George Orwell