George Orwell Quotes

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

Writing a novel is agony.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

Weakness is strength.

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

He loved Big Brother.

Napoleon is always right.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

For the future. For the unborn.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.