George Orwell quotes

I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty.
George Orwell

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does
not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George Orwell

It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of
the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free
press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but
to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your
adversary.
George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of
intelligent men.
George Orwell

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

Living a lie the whole time - the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of
to rob them… it corrupts us, it corrupts us in ways you can't imagine.
George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of
self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are
cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of
the citizen.
George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of
human labor.
George Orwell

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

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity
of civilization.
George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface
one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two
evils.
George Orwell

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.
George Orwell

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
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

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore
thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply
reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

<< Previous    1  2  [3]  4    Next >>