George Orwell Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Party, Reality

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.189, Arcturus Publishing

• A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Order

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

• The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

• The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Secret

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.164, Arcturus Publishing

• Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Hands, People

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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