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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
— George Orwell
Inequality was the unalterable law of human life.
— George Orwell
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One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.
— George Orwell
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
— George Orwell
His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return,
— George Orwell
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
— Helmut Newton
She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston. — George Orwell
You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs.
— George Orwell
Without having read to the end of the book, he knew that that must be Goldstein's final message. The future belonged to the proles.
— George Orwell
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
— George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
— George Orwell
people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same - people
— George Orwell
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
— George Orwell
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
— George Orwell
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
— George Orwell
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
— Robert Harris
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
— George Orwell
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
— George Orwell
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
— George Orwell
The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
— George Orwell
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
— George Orwell
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
— George Orwell
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other
— George Orwell
A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg.
— George Orwell
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
— George Orwell
Who cares?' she said impatiently, 'it's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.
— George Orwell
The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers' boots formed the background to Goldstein's bleating voice.
— George Orwell
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
— George Orwell
It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.
— George Orwell
Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a long way off.
— George Orwell
That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.
— George Orwell
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
— Arthur Levitt Jr
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
— George Orwell
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
— George Orwell
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
— George Orwell
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No, it's not [a book] Lana. It's an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS.
— Sterling Archer
There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.
— George Orwell
There's time for everything except the things worth doing.
— George Orwell
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
— George Orwell
Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.
— George Orwell
It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
— George Orwell
His powers of sweating were extraordinary.
— George Orwell
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
— George Orwell
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
— George Orwell
People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.
— George Orwell
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
— George Orwell
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
— George Orwell
Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory.
— George Orwell
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
— George Orwell
It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
— George Orwell
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
— George Orwell
The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
— George Orwell
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.
— Christopher Hitchens
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
Happiness can only exist in acceptance.
— George Orwell
Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.
— George Orwell
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They
— George Orwell
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
— George Orwell
At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone
— George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
— George Orwell
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
— George Orwell
I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes.
— George Orwell
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
— George Orwell
And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality.
— George Orwell
Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
— George Orwell
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell
No real revolutionary has ever been an internationalist.
— George Orwell
But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing.
— George Orwell
Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
— George Orwell
She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and
— George Orwell
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone onthat is, badly. — George Orwell
He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed.- There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?
- Yes. — George Orwell
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We
— George Orwell
