George Orwell Quotes

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Good, Evil, Hell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell

Men, Life, Happiness

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

Equality, Human, Revolution

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

Cannot, Catholic, Grown

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Serious, Minus

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

Cannot, Honest, Both

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell

Winning, Moment, Seem

Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell

Society, Human, Practice

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell

Job, Feeling, Whatever

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

Guilty, Until, Innocent

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

Truth, Emotional, Important

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

Sense, Seldom, Possess

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Human, Felt, Achieve

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Literature, Above, Novel

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George Orwell

War, Used, Might

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell

War, Therefore, Eurasia

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Human, Him, Joke

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

Fat, Inside, Thin

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

Human, Trying, Write

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

War, Lose, Ending

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

History, Truth, Lies

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

Worth, Stealing, Dickens

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
George Orwell

Good, War, Human

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25, 1903

Died: January 21, 1950

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