George Orwell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Orwell
George Orwell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
Truth is a matter of Perspective
There will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.
There will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.
There is no comfort. Our lives dismay us.
We have dreams of leaving and it is the same for everyone I know.
We have dreams of leaving and it is the same for everyone I know.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.
to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.
There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.
The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now
Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Who cares?' she said impatiently, 'it's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.
It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain
The writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea-leaves blocking a sink.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The modern emphasis on what is called 'clean fun' is really the symptom of a general unwillingness to touch upon any serious or controversial subject.
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
Their job seemed to me so hopeless, so appalling that I wondered how anyone could put up with such a thing when prison was a possible alternative.
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.
I'm thirty-nine years old. I've got a wife that I can't get rid of. I've got varicose veins. I've got five false teeth.
People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? But
And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.
if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.