Humans Quotes by George Orwell

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

— George Orwell

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

— George Orwell

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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I have no wish to take life, not even human life

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Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

— George Orwell

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

— George Orwell

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human…

— George Orwell

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me…

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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

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Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

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People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting…

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Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons…

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By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that…

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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put…

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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

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their…

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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some…

— George Orwell

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let…

— George Orwell

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature…

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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.…

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the…

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Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have…

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“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all…

— George Orwell

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

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty…

— George Orwell

As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils…

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A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

— George Orwell

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against…

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If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places…

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The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be…

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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

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The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five…

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Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable…

— George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case…

— George Orwell