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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
One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.
— George Orwell
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
— Helmut Newton
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
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.
— George Orwell
Where there is equality there can be sanity.
— 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
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
Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.
— 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
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
— Robert Harris
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
— 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
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They
— George Orwell
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
You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.
— 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
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
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
— George Orwell
At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone
— George Orwell
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
— 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
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
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
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
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— 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
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
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
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell
No real revolutionary has ever been an internationalist.
— 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
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
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
But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing.
— 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