--- title: "29 Enemy Quotes By George Orwell" description: "29 Enemy quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Enemy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/george-orwell-57_enemy_truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your_990880.jpg" --- > [Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your-enemy/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/george-orwell-57_enemy_truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your_990880.jpg) > [The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is-insincerity/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/george-orwell-57_clear_the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is_1405785.jpg) > [All men are enemies. All animals are comrades](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/all-men-are-enemies-all-animals-are-comrades/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd2/george-orwell-57_animal_all-men-are-enemies-all-animals-are-comr_2525690.jpg) > [The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-truth-it-is-felt-becomes-untruth-when-your-enemy-utters-it/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/george-orwell-57_enemy_the-truth-it-is-felt-becomes-untruth-whe_1714465.jpg) > [The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-great-enemy-of-clear-language-is-insincerity/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/george-orwell-57_clear_the-great-enemy-of-clear-language-is-ins_958347.jpg) > [We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/we-do-not-merely-destroy-our-enemies-we-change-them/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/673/george-orwell-57_change_we-do-not-merely-destroy-our-enemies-we_1274970.jpg) > [Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/your-worst-enemy-he-reflected-was-your-nervous-system-at-any-moment/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/george-orwell-57_anxiety_your-worst-enemy-he-reflected-was-your-n_801700.jpg) > [“We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/we-do-not-merely-destroy-our-enemies-we-change-them-do-you-understand/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/george-orwell-57_change_we-do-not-merely-destroy-our-enemies-we_2669992.jpg) > [Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/everyone-believes-in-the-atrocities-of-the-enemy-and-disbelieves-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/george-orwell-57_atrocities_everyone-believes-in-the-atrocities-of-t_958538.jpg) > [Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-real-enemy-we-have-remove-man-from-the-scene-and-the/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34c/george-orwell-57_causes_man-is-the-only-real-enemy-we-have-remov_2280825.jpg) > [In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-moments-of-crisis-one-is-never-fighting-against-an-external-enemy/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/george-orwell-57_body_in-moments-of-crisis-one-is-never-fighti_1014409.jpg) > [“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whatever-goes-upon-two-legs-is-an-enemy-whatever-goes-upon-four-legs/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d2/george-orwell-57_friendship_whatever-goes-upon-two-legs-is-an-enemy_1075801.jpg) > [When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/when-i-see-an-actual-flesh-and-blood-worker-in-conflict-with-his/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b2/george-orwell-57_blood_when-i-see-an-actual-flesh-and-blood-wor_1136282.jpg) > [The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-enemy-of-the-moment-always-represented-absolute-evil-and-it/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/george-orwell-57_agreement_the-enemy-of-the-moment-always-represent_946350.jpg) > [The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-great-enemy-of-clear-language-is-insincerity-when-there-is-a-gap/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f96/george-orwell-57_enemy_the-great-enemy-of-clear-language-is-ins_86344.jpg) > [If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-publishers-and-editors-exert-themselves-to-keep-certain-topics-out/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/george-orwell-57_certain_if-publishers-and-editors-exert-themselv_316260.jpg) > [To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/to-exchange-one-orthodoxy-for-another-is-not-necessarily-an-advance/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c2/george-orwell-57_agree_to-exchange-one-orthodoxy-for-another-is_1686754.jpg) > [“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/there-comrades-is-the-answer-to-all-our-problems-it-is-summed-up-in-a/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/george-orwell-57_root-cause_there-comrades-is-the-answer-to-all-our_1898636.jpg) > [Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/winston-could-not-definitely-remember-a-time-when-his-country-had-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/george-orwell-57_absolutes_winston-could-not-definitely-remember-a_866160.jpg) > [In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-this-country-intellectual-cowardice-is-the-worst-enemy-a-writer-or/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae6/george-orwell-57_accepting_in-this-country-intellectual-cowardice-i_2682183.jpg) > [Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/do-you-remember-writing-in-your-diary-he-said-that-it-did-not-matter/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/george-orwell-57_appeals_do-you-remember-writing-in-your-diary-he_148285.jpg) > [The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-seven-commandments-whatever-goes-upon-two-legs-is-an-enemy/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/george-orwell-57_alcohol_the-seven-commandments-whatever-goes-upo_704253.jpg) > [There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/there-will-be-no-curiosity-no-enjoyment-of-the-process-of-life-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de3/george-orwell-57_boots_there-will-be-no-curiosity-no-enjoyment_2874581.jpg) > [It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis-one-is-never-fighting-against/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/george-orwell-57_body_it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis_897897.jpg) > [A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-mass-of-latin-words-falls-upon-the-facts-like-soft-snow-blurring-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/923/george-orwell-57_age_a-mass-of-latin-words-falls-upon-the-fac_3058693.jpg) > [Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/comrades-he-said-here-is-a-point-that-must-be-settled-the-wild/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/george-orwell-57_animals_comrades-he-said-here-is-a-point-that-mu_1196641.jpg) > [Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whatever-goes-upon-two-legs-is-an-enemy-whatever-goes-upon-four-legs-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ca/george-orwell-57_enemy_whatever-goes-upon-two-legs-is-an-enemy_2525858.jpg) > [The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-enemies-of-intellectual-liberty-always-try-to-present-their-case/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce5/george-orwell-57_backgrounds_the-enemies-of-intellectual-liberty-alwa_1629232.jpg) > [The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-inflated-style-is-itself-a-kind-of-euphemism-a-mass-of-latin/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/george-orwell-57_bad-language_the-inflated-style-is-itself-a-kind-of-e_755483.jpg) ## Other authors on Enemy - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 188 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/sun-tzu/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 48 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-bonaparte-70192.jpg) Napoleon Bonaparte 37 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/napoleon-bonaparte/) - [Martin Luther King, Jr 35 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/martin-luther-king-jr/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/dalai-lama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-niccolo-machiavelli-70986.jpg) Niccolo Machiavelli 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/niccolo-machiavelli/) ## More by George Orwell > [In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-the-nineteenth-century-some-parts-of-the-world-were-unexplored-but/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-given-out-that-the-animals-there-practised-cannibalism/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-actual-writing-would-be-easy-all-he-had-to-do-was-to-transfer-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-felt-as-though-he-were-wandering-in-the-forests-of-the-sea-bottom/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-took-1-corinthians-chapter-thirteen-and-in-every-verse-wrote/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Happiness can exist only in acceptance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/happiness-can-exist-only-in-acceptance/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whitman-himself-accepted-a-great-deal-that-his-contemporaries-found/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-i-tell-you-winston-that-reality-is-not-external-reality-exists-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-people-under-the-sky-were-also-very-much-the-same-everywhere/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/windmill-or-no-windmill-he-said-life-would-go-on-as-it-had-always/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-creature-that-consumes-without-producing-he-does-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-bigger-the-fall-the-bigger-the-joke-it-would-be-better-fun-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/any-writer-or-journalist-who-wants-to-retain-his-integrity-finds/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "29 Enemy Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your-enemy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/george-orwell-57_enemy_truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your_990880.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/george-orwell-57_enemy_truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your_990880.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/george-orwell-57_enemy_truth-becomes-untruth-if-uttered-by-your_990880.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is-insincerity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/george-orwell-57_clear_the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is_1405785.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/george-orwell-57_clear_the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is_1405785.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/george-orwell-57_clear_the-greatest-enemy-of-clear-language-is_1405785.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All men are enemies. 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