Opinion Quotes by George Orwell

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

— George Orwell

“Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.”

— George Orwell

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

— George Orwell

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is…

— 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

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair…

— George Orwell

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

— George Orwell

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia…

— George Orwell

“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is…

— George Orwell

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of…

— George Orwell

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in…

— George Orwell

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

— George Orwell

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions…

— George Orwell

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are…

— George Orwell

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’…

— George Orwell

[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions…

— George Orwell

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will…

— George Orwell

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In…

— George Orwell

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by…

— George Orwell