George Orwell
30 quotations
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.