Top 500 George Orwell Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.”

— George Orwell

152. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

— George Orwell

153. “No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.”

— George Orwell

154. “A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today.”

— George Orwell

155. “All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

— George Orwell

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156. “Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.”

— George Orwell

157. “All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.”

— George Orwell

158. “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”

— George Orwell

159. “The heresy of heresies was common sense.”

— George Orwell

160. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

— George Orwell

161. “As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

— George Orwell

162. “Power is not a means; it is an end.”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

164. “And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.”

— George Orwell

165. “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

— George Orwell

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166. “Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”

— George Orwell

167. “La guerra es paz, la libertad es esclavitud, la ignorancia es la fuerza.”

— George Orwell

168. “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.”

— George Orwell

169. “It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.”

— George Orwell

170. “To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.”

— George Orwell

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171. “Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.”

— George Orwell

172. “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

173. “It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

— George Orwell

174. “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

— George Orwell

175. “What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

— George Orwell

176. “All human relationships must be purchased with money.”

— George Orwell

177. “Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

— George Orwell

178. “The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.”

— George Orwell

179. “The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

— George Orwell

180. “England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”

— George Orwell

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181. “Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”

— George Orwell

182. “Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”

— George Orwell

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183. “Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.”

— George Orwell

184. “Weakness is strength.”

— George Orwell

185. “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

— George Orwell

186. “They fear love because it creates a world they can’t control.”

— George Orwell

187. “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”

— George Orwell

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188. “Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”

— George Orwell

189. “We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!”

— George Orwell

190. “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”

— George Orwell

191. “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

192. “Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”

— George Orwell

193. “Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.”

— George Orwell

194. “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”

— George Orwell

195. “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”

— George Orwell

196. “When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”

— George Orwell

197. “Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon – so long as there is no answer to it – gives claws to the weak.”

— George Orwell

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198. “The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

— George Orwell

199. “We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”

— George Orwell

200. “It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”

— George Orwell