George Orwell Quotes

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Men, Sleep, Night

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Truth, Time, Act

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Political, Give, Wind

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

Freedom, Tell, Hear

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

Imagination, Future, Human

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

Peace, Strength, War

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

Future, Past, Present

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

Future, Past, Political

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

Men, Sleep, Night

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.
George Orwell

Sports, War, Jealousy

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

End, Political, Language

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Happiness, Acceptance, Exist

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

Fighting, Hatred, Lies

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Intelligence, Men, Duty

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Give, Enough, Cannot

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

Power, Mind, Two

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

Liberty, Tell, Means

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Age, Politics, Political

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell

Revolution, Makes, Order

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

War, Before, Against

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

Big, Brother, Watching

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Power, Liberal, Worshipper

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell

Side, Committed, Capacity

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

War, Country, Against

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25, 1903

Died: January 21, 1950

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