Best George Orwell Thoughts
- I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can… All
- The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… Admire
- A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.… Actually Happened
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to… Afterwards
- Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. Autobiography
- Using clichés is a substitute for thinking Clich
- The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' Desirable
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… All
- ...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,… Any
- Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… Both
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,… Accumulated
- Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take… Avoided
- A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. Act
- If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… Almost Certain
- The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. Absolute
- When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… Awash
- A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things… Attack
- England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. Ashamed
- Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. Forcible
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed… Action
- One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. Alive
- Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. Book
- A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. Describing
- Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. All
- He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind… Childhood
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