Quote

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

George Orwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Eric Blair
P. S. Burton
Eric Arthur Blair
John Freeman
Always
Bed
Indoors
Watching
Skull
Except
Bath
Doors
Skulls
Eyes
Baths
Eye
Asleep
Voice
Awake
Cubic
Nothing
Escape
Enveloping

More quotes by George Orwell

Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
Image
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
Image
The more intelligent, the less sane
George Orwell
Image
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
George Orwell
Image
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.
George Orwell
Image
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell
Image
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George Orwell
Image
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
George Orwell
Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs
George Orwell
Image
Sanity is not statistical.
George Orwell
Image
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George Orwell
Image
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
George Orwell
Image
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
George Orwell
Image
The object of power is power.
George Orwell
Image
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
George Orwell
Image
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
George Orwell
Image
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.
George Orwell
Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.
George Orwell
Image
The end was contained in the beginning.
George Orwell