George Orwell Quotes

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George Orwell Quote: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

George Orwell Quote: “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell Quote: “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”

George Orwell Quote: “Big Brother is watching you.”

George Orwell Quote: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell Quote: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell Quote: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”

George Orwell Quote: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

George Orwell Quote: “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

George Orwell Quote: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

George Orwell Quote: “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell Quote: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

George Orwell Quote: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

George Orwell Quote: “Sanity is not statistical.”

George Orwell Quote: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

George Orwell Quote: “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

George Orwell Quote: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

George Orwell Quote: “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

George Orwell Quote: “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

George Orwell Quote: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

George Orwell Quote: “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

George Orwell Quote: “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

George Orwell Quote: “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

George Orwell Quote: “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”

George Orwell Quote: “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”

George Orwell Quote: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell Quote: “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

George Orwell Quote: “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

George Orwell Quote: “He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

George Orwell Quote: “Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.”

George Orwell Quote: “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

George Orwell Quote: “Rich people are poor people with money.”

George Orwell Quote: “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

George Orwell Quote: “The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.”

George Orwell Quote: “I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY.”

George Orwell Quote: “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

George Orwell Quote: “It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.”

George Orwell Quote: “A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.”

George Orwell Quote: “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

George Orwell Quote: “He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

George Orwell Quote: “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

George Orwell Quote: “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

George Orwell Quote: “You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

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

George Orwell Quote: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

George Orwell Quote: “This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we’re all corpses. Just rotting upright.”

George Orwell Quote: “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”

George Orwell Quote: “Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me –.”

George Orwell Quote: “But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

George Orwell Quote: “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

George Orwell Quote: “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

George Orwell Quote: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

George Orwell Quote: “Four legs good, two legs bad.”

George Orwell Quote: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

George Orwell Quote: “Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.”

George Orwell Quote: “Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”

George Orwell Quote: “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

George Orwell Quote: “If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.”

George Orwell Quote: “The fight against bad English is not frivolous.”

George Orwell Quote: “War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”

George Orwell Quote: “Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

George Orwell Quote: “Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

George Orwell Quote: “At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”

George Orwell Quote: “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any practical result whatsoever, you’ve beaten them.”

George Orwell Quote: “Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

George Orwell Quote: “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell Quote: “Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.”

George Orwell Quote: “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...”

George Orwell Quote: “All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”

George Orwell Quote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

George Orwell Quote: “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

George Orwell Quote: “Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

George Orwell Quote: “In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

George Orwell Quote: “It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith – as mysterious as faith itself.”

George Orwell Quote: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

George Orwell Quote: “There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.”

George Orwell Quote: “Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

George Orwell Quote: “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.”

George Orwell Quote: “The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.”

George Orwell Quote: “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

George Orwell Quote: “History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell Quote: “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell Quote: “My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.”

George Orwell Quote: “Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”

George Orwell Quote: “To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”

George Orwell Quote: “I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

George Orwell Quote: “In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

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

George Orwell Quote: “The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

George Orwell Quote: “Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”

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

George Orwell Quote: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.”

George Orwell Quote: “High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

George Orwell Quote: “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”

George Orwell Quote: “A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”

George Orwell Quote: “The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

George Orwell Quote: “Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”

George Orwell Quote: “The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

George Orwell Quote: “The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”

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