George Orwell quotes

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always
one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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

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 family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to
describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more
than others.
George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know
that fire is hot.
George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most
grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell