Freedom Quotes by George Orwell

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

— George Orwell

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

— George Orwell

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

— George Orwell

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”

— George Orwell

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

— George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

— George Orwell

To die hating them, that was freedom.

— George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious

— George Orwell

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

— George Orwell

“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.”

— George Orwell

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

— George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

— George Orwell

“One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.”

— George Orwell

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books…

— George Orwell

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual…

— George Orwell

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as…

— George Orwell

“Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty…

— George Orwell

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is…

— George Orwell

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than…

— George Orwell

“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.…

— George Orwell

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount…

— George Orwell

“Whenever A is oppressing B, it is clear to people of good will that B ought to be independent, but then it…

— George Orwell

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and…

— George Orwell

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought…

— George Orwell

“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom…

— George Orwell

“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and…

— George Orwell

“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling…

— George Orwell

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong…

— George Orwell

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,…

— George Orwell

“In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands…

— George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

— George Orwell

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

— George Orwell

“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.”

— George Orwell

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

— George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

— George Orwell

“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.”

— George Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

— George Orwell