On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
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… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
![“The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/83e/george-orwell-57_average_the-major-problem-of-our-time-is-the-dec_683396.jpg)
