Famous Quotes by George Orwell
Below are famous quotes by George Orwell - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950).
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
Big Brother is watching you.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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