Happy Birthday Eric!
George Orwell
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
--George Orwell
(Reflections on Gandhi)
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
--George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
--George Orwell
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
--George Orwell
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
--George Orwell
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
--George Orwell
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
--George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell