Long Quotes by George Orwell

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

— George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

— George Orwell

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have…

— George Orwell

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

— George Orwell

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had…

— George Orwell

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply…

— George Orwell

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are…

— George Orwell

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when…

— George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a…

— George Orwell

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so…

— George Orwell

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…

— George Orwell

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an…

— George Orwell

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of…

— George Orwell

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life…

— George Orwell

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever…

— George Orwell

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,…

— George Orwell

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

— George Orwell

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle…

— George Orwell

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— 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

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,…

— George Orwell

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long…

— George Orwell

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,…

— 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,…

— George Orwell

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different…

— George Orwell

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they…

— George Orwell

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate…

— George Orwell

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at…

— George Orwell