216 Total Quotes
George Orwell Quotes
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
It is hard to imagine how the U.N., perhaps the world's most important international organization and one which is widely counted on to preserve the truth, could allow itself to blatantly deviate from history and misinform the world about something so fundamental to its history.