--- title: "9 Pieces Quotes By George Orwell" description: "9 Pieces quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Pieces sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/george-orwell-57_appeals_how-could-you-make-appeal-to-the-future_1211417.jpg" --- > [How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/how-could-you-make-appeal-to-the-future-when-not-a-trace-of-you-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/george-orwell-57_appeals_how-could-you-make-appeal-to-the-future_1211417.jpg) > [War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-materials-which-might-otherwise/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/george-orwell-57_comfortable_war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-mat_862312.jpg) > [they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/they-had-come-to-a-time-when-no-one-dared-speak-his-mind-when-fierce/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/george-orwell-57_comrade_they-had-come-to-a-time-when-no-one-dare_1653466.jpg) > [Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/power-is-in-tearing-human-minds-to-pieces-and-putting-them-together/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c27/george-orwell-57_human-mind_power-is-in-tearing-human-minds-to-piece_1907049.jpg) > [“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-essential-act-of-war-is-destruction-not-necessarily-of-human-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4aa/george-orwell-57_depth_the-essential-act-of-war-is-destruction_586194.jpg) > [Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/political-writing-in-our-time-consists-almost-entirely-of/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dc/george-orwell-57_censorship_political-writing-in-our-time-consists-a_2559460.jpg) > [“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-or-pouring-into-the-stratosphere/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af4/george-orwell-57_long-run_war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-or_2517980.jpg) > [But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-the-proles-if-only-they-could-somehow-become-conscious-of-their/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/george-orwell-57_blow_but-the-proles-if-only-they-could-someho_2358546.jpg) > [He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-examined-the-chess-problem-and-set-out-the-pieces-it-was-a-tricky/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/george-orwell-57_bigs_he-examined-the-chess-problem-and-set-ou_265068.jpg) ## Other authors on Pieces ## 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/pieces/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "9 Pieces Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word 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