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The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk. — George Orwell

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell

Inequality was the unalterable law of human life. — George Orwell

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. — George Orwell

One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. — George Orwell

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered? — George Orwell

He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. — George Orwell

You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs. — George Orwell

Power is not a means; it is an end. — George Orwell

Where there is equality there can be sanity. — George Orwell

There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways. — George Orwell

A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field. — George Orwell

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell

Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. — George Orwell

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial — George Orwell

An all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. In — George Orwell

International football is the continuation of war by other means. — George Orwell

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future. — George Orwell

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different? — George Orwell

Rich people are poor people with money. — George Orwell

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. — George Orwell

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. — George Orwell

The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. — George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. — George Orwell

purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. The — George Orwell

You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark. — George Orwell

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! — George Orwell

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. — George Orwell

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. — George Orwell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. — George Orwell

Mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes — George Orwell

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. — George Orwell

For the future. For the unborn. — George Orwell

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell. — Martin Cruz Smith

What is important for my purpose is that it was during the "anti-Fascist" phase that the younger English writers gravitated towards Communism. The — George Orwell

War is a way of shattering to pieces ... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and ... too intelligent. — George Orwell

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. — George Orwell

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell

Eight hundred people, possibly, are murdered every year in Burma, they matter nothing; but the murder of a white man is a monstrosity, a sacrilege. — George Orwell

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. — George Orwell

It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do — George Orwell

According to his theory, foreigners were responsible for unemployment. — George Orwell

At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone — George Orwell

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. — George Orwell

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. — George Orwell

It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure. — George Orwell

His powers of sweating were extraordinary. — George Orwell

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. — George Orwell

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. — George Orwell

People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election. — George Orwell

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. — George Orwell

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. — George Orwell

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. — George Orwell

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. — George Orwell

It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. — George Orwell

The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. — George Orwell

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. — George Orwell

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. — George Orwell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. — Christopher Hitchens

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

Happiness can only exist in acceptance. — George Orwell

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell

Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow. — George Orwell

the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They — George Orwell

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. — George Orwell

A 'alf-litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. — George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. — George Orwell

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. — George Orwell

In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain. — George Orwell

But a child's belief in its own shortcomings is not much influenced by facts. — George Orwell

I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes. — George Orwell

An earthquake is such fun when it is over. — George Orwell

And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. — George Orwell

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. — George Orwell

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell

The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals. — George Orwell

No real revolutionary has ever been an internationalist. — George Orwell

But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing. — George Orwell

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. — George Orwell

Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best. — George Orwell

She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and — George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,' she announced finally. — George Orwell

Will Big Brother ever die?" "Of course not. How could he die? Next question. — George Orwell

He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed.
- There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?
- Yes. — George Orwell

If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad — George Orwell

He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We — George Orwell

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! — George Orwell