You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see.
George Orwell
Despair, Fate, Struggle, Acceptance, Life
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“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” George Orwell
Reality, Mind, Perception, Existence, Subjectivity
George Orwell Reality, Mind, Perception, Existence, Subjectivity“Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon – so long as there is no answer to it – gives claws to the weak.” George Orwell
Weapons, Democracy, Power, Equality, Conflict
George Orwell Weapons, Democracy, Power, Equality, Conflict“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.” George Orwell
Humanity, Development, Technology, Society, Capability
George Orwell Humanity, Development, Technology, Society, Capability“Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.” George Orwell
Power, Politics, Influence, Trend, Judgment
George Orwell Power, Politics, Influence, Trend, Judgment“A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world, there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.” George Orwell
Progress, Pain, Humanity, Society, Emotion
George Orwell Progress, Pain, Humanity, Society, Emotion“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.” George Orwell
Capital Punishment, Morality, Society, Ethics, Responsibility
George Orwell Capital Punishment, Morality, Society, Ethics, Responsibility“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.” George Orwell
Hate, Society, Conformity, Control, Emotion
George Orwell Hate, Society, Conformity, Control, Emotion“Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune, and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.” George Orwell
Cricket, Hope, Fortune, Ethics, Uncertainty
George Orwell Cricket, Hope, Fortune, Ethics, Uncertainty“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” George Orwell
Emotion, Childhood, Instinct, Trust, Maturity
George Orwell Emotion, Childhood, Instinct, Trust, Maturity“The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.” George Orwell
Isolation, Health, Society, Extremism, Humanity
George Orwell Isolation, Health, Society, Extremism, Humanity“It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.” George Orwell
Writing, Style, Expression, Clarity, Struggle
George Orwell Writing, Style, Expression, Clarity, Struggle“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.” George Orwell
Humanity, Capitalism, Individuality, Society, Freedom
George Orwell Humanity, Capitalism, Individuality, Society, Freedom“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.” George Orwell
Anxiety, Mind, Body, Emotion, Struggle
George Orwell Anxiety, Mind, Body, Emotion, Struggle“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.” George Orwell
Civilization, Decay, Acceptance, Society, Progress
George Orwell Civilization, Decay, Acceptance, Society, Progress“There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.” George Orwell
Intellectualism, Belief, Irony, Paradox, Reason
George Orwell Intellectualism, Belief, Irony, Paradox, Reason“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.” George Orwell
Control, Suppression, Sexuality, Science, Power
George Orwell Control, Suppression, Sexuality, Science, Power“If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.” George Orwell
Reflection, Politics, Ideology, Anarchism, Awareness
George Orwell Reflection, Politics, Ideology, Anarchism, Awareness“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.” George Orwell
Self-Interest, Humanity, Nature, Egoism, Survival
George Orwell Self-Interest, Humanity, Nature, Egoism, Survival