A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

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

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell


Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell