George Orwell Quotes
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
Each 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
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell