--- title: "Best Men Quotes by George Orwell" description: "55 Men quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Men sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/george-orwell-57_asks_when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beati_730848.jpg" --- > [When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beating-a-man-on-the-ground-i-don/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/george-orwell-57_asks_when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beati_730848.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) > [If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-have-no-money-men-won-t-care-for-you-women-won-t-love-you-won/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a3/george-orwell-57_care_if-you-have-no-money-men-won-t-care-for_2744718.jpg) > [There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/there-comrades-is-the-answer-to-all-our-problems-it-is-summed-up-in-a-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a8/george-orwell-57_answers_there-comrades-is-the-answer-to-all-our_2720746.jpg) > [“A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-man-may-take-to-drink-because-he-feels-himself-a-failure-but-then/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/george-orwell-57_drink_a-man-may-take-to-drink-because-he-feels_1690722.jpg) > [One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/one-must-choose-between-god-and-man-and-all-radicals-and-progressives/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/george-orwell-57_anarchist_one-must-choose-between-god-and-man-and_2615731.jpg) > [ \[T\]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/t-he-outcry-against-killing-women-if-you-accept-killing-at-all-is/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/george-orwell-57_accepting_t-he-outcry-against-killing-women-if-you_320970.jpg) > [Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-not-a-yahoo-but-he-is-rather-like-a-yahoo-and-needs-to-be/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/george-orwell-57_inspirational_man-is-not-a-yahoo-but-he-is-rather-like_1330624.jpg) > [A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-man-may-take-to-drink-because-he-feels-himself-to-he-a-failure-and/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/176/george-orwell-57_drink_a-man-may-take-to-drink-because-he-feels_1330685.jpg) > [No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/no-one-i-met-at-this-time-doctors-nurses-practicantes-or-fellow/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/george-orwell-57_alive_no-one-i-met-at-this-time-doctors-nurses_756987.jpg) > [For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/for-the-ordinary-man-is-passive-within-a-narrow-circle-home-life-and/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40a/george-orwell-57_acceptance_for-the-ordinary-man-is-passive-within-a_3152062.jpg) > [The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-educated-man-pictures-a-horde-of-submen-wanting-only-a-day-s/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b9/george-orwell-57_book_the-educated-man-pictures-a-horde-of-sub_1997034.jpg) > [Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/now-he-had-recognized-himself-as-a-dead-man-it-became-important-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/george-orwell-57_alive_now-he-had-recognized-himself-as-a-dead_817651.jpg) > [No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/no-man-should-be-allowed-to-be-the-president-who-does-not-understand/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/118/george-orwell-57_doe_no-man-should-be-allowed-to-be-the-presi_876309.jpg) > [Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/perhaps-a-man-really-dies-when-his-brain-stops-when-he-loses-the/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/george-orwell-57_brain_perhaps-a-man-really-dies-when-his-brain_676893.jpg) ## Other authors on Men - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 1,027 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 710 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 463 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 378 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Samuel Johnson 361 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/samuel-johnson/) - [Mark Twain 354 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 354 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 349 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/ayn-rand/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 332 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-ward-beecher-41729.jpg) Henry Ward Beecher 289 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/henry-ward-beecher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 283 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 278 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/swami-vivekananda/) ## 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/men/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "Best Men Quotes by George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beating-a-man-on-the-ground-i-don/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/george-orwell-57_asks_when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beati_730848.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/george-orwell-57_asks_when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beati_730848.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/george-orwell-57_asks_when-i-see-a-policeman-with-a-club-beati_730848.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man is the only real enemy we have. 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