Men Quotes by George Orwell

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

— George Orwell

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

— George Orwell

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

— George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

— George Orwell

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

— George Orwell

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

— George Orwell

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

— George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

— George Orwell

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm…

— George Orwell

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

— George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

— George Orwell

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

— 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

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

— George Orwell

Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever…

— George Orwell

In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are…

— 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

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an…

— George Orwell

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because…

— George Orwell

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels…

— George Orwell

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

— George Orwell

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim…

— George Orwell

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union…

— George Orwell

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They…

— George Orwell

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved…

— George Orwell

Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become…

— George Orwell

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

— George Orwell

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

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

— George Orwell

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

— George Orwell

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

— George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

— George Orwell

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

— George Orwell

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply…

— George Orwell

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

— George Orwell

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as…

— George Orwell