Four legs good, two legs bad.
George Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell

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

Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
George Orwell

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell

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

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

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

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell