George Orwell Quotes

"At age 50, every man has the face he deserves."
-George Orwell in Age quotes.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-George Orwell

"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
-George Orwell in Winning quotes.

"Big Brother is watching you."
-George Orwell

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell in Appearance quotes.

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
-George Orwell in Order quotes.

"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."
-George Orwell

"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
-George Orwell in Writing quotes.

"Good writing is like a windowpane."
-George Orwell in Writing quotes.

"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
-George Orwell

"Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped."
-George Orwell in Invention quotes.

"Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
-George Orwell

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
-George Orwell in Language quotes.

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
-George Orwell

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."
-George Orwell in Love quotes.

"Sanity is not statistical."
-George Orwell

"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
-George Orwell

"..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years."
-George Orwell in Church quotes.

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
-George Orwell in Lies quotes.

"When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys."
-George Orwell in Freedom quotes.

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. "
-George Orwell in Sleep quotes.

"What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter."
-George Orwell in Feelings quotes.

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
-George Orwell

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
-George Orwell

"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."
-George Orwell in Life quotes.

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
-George Orwell in Power quotes.

"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell in Appearance quotes.