Best George Orwell Proverbs
- The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. Egoism
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to… Acute
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Army
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Act
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Freedom
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. Appearance
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. Boot
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Controls
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Freedom
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Anti War
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. All
- Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Acceptance
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of… Age
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. Depth
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in… All
- Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. Bring
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own… All
- One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. Dictatorship
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. Accepting
- Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull… All
- Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. Act
- Big Brother is watching you. Big
- Liberal: a power worshipper without power. Inspirational
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. All
- Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. Badass
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