George Orwell Quotes: World-renowned British author Gerorge Orwell is known for his books Animal Farm and 1984. His books, which include his criticisms of social systems, have become cult.
George Orwell Quotes
1.“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” – George Orwell
2. “In every one of those little stucco boxes, there”s some poor bastard who”s never free except when he”s fast asleep and dreaming” – George Orwell
3. “Looking at the whole world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery.” – George Orwell
4. “No one can get up much enthusiasm for a Government which puts you in jail if you open your mouth” – George Orwell
5. “Freedom of speech is real.” – George Orwell
6. “He is a slave with a semblance of liberty which is worse than the most cruel slavery.” – George Orwell
7. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
8. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” – George Orwell
9. “Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” – George Orwell
10. “Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.” – George Orwell
11. “One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.” – George Orwell
12. “As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.” – George Orwell
13. “I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.” – George Orwell
14. “It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.” – George Orwell
15. “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
16. “If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?” – George Orwell
17. “Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.” – George Orwell
18. “Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.” – George Orwell
19. “Big Brother is watching you.” – George Orwell
20. “To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.” – George Orwell
21. “The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.” – George Orwell
22. “The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell
23. “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.” – George Orwell
24. “Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.” – George Orwell
25. “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.” – George Orwell
26. “I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.” – George Orwell
27. “To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” – George Orwell
28. “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.” – George Orwell
29. “Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.” – George Orwell
30. “On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” – George Orwell
31. “Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.” – George Orwell
32. “When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.” – George Orwell
33. “Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.” – George Orwell
34. “In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” – George Orwell
35. “The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.” – George Orwell
36. “Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.” – George Orwell
37. “The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.” – George Orwell
38. “Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” – George Orwell
39. “Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.” – George Orwell
40. “He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.” – George Orwell
41. “Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” – George Orwell
42. “For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.” – George Orwell
43. “One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.” – George Orwell
44. “A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.” – George Orwell
45. “Four legs good, two legs bad.” – George Orwell
46. “There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.” – George Orwell
47. “The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.” – George Orwell
48. “No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.” – George Orwell
49. “Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.” – George Orwell
50. “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.” – George Orwell