George Orwell Quotes
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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.
To see what is in front of one`s nose needs a constant struggle.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable '“ what then?
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
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.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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 squirting out ink.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
