Best George Orwell Sayings
- Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… Been
- It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a… All
- I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was… Agent
- No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through… Alive
- Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will… All
- The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Among
- The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he… Able
- The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is… All
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you… Any
- They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,… Accept
- The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. Collar
- The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -… Climate
- We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become… Abolished
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and… Begging
- The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,… All
- There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. Acting
- Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,… Actually Becoming
- You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. Believe
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine… Agree
- Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected,… Altering
- Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. Artist
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… Cost
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts… All
- One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. Contrary
- At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… Accept
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