George Orwell Quotes - Page 2

"Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details."
-George Orwell in Facts quotes.

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
-George Orwell in Needs quotes.

"War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength."
-George Orwell in Freedom 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.

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
-George Orwell in Language quotes.

"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned."
-George Orwell in History quotes.

"They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it."
-George Orwell

"By lack of understanding they remained insane."
-George Orwell in Understanding quotes.

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell in Order quotes.

"Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows."
-George Orwell

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
-George Orwell

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell in Sleep quotes.

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
-George Orwell in Animals quotes.

"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."
-George Orwell in Doubt quotes.

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell in Freedom quotes.

"He who controls the past controls the future."
-George Orwell in Past quotes.

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
-George Orwell

"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
-George Orwell in Atheism quotes.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell in Liberty quotes.

"The future is a boot smashing a human face forever."
-George Orwell in Future quotes.

"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
-George Orwell in Mind quotes.

"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
-George Orwell