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
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