Best George Orwell Quotes
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… All
- I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. Comment
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… Across
- I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… Acquired
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… Almost Entirely
- All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. All
- When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement… Any
- Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. Doomed
- Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. Every Nation
- Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. Approve
- The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in… Book
- In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. Belief
- The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. Advanced
- The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… Antiwar
- People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'… Approach
- The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. Easier
- But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. Bomb
- A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. Humanitarian
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of… Aim
- One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. Believe
- A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… Acquiesce
- The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. Any
- And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. Believe
- No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. Animal
- This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I… All
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