George Orwell Quotes

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell

Patriotism, Hatred, Stronger

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George Orwell

Yourself, Fight, Often

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell

Human, Heroic, Pinch

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

Liberty, Sometimes, Price

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

True, Become, Myths

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell

Love, Another, Child

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell

War, Human, Lives

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell

Love, Nothing, Human

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

God, Him, Atheist

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

Good, Time, Human

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

Education, Doubt, Whether

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

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

Age, True, Feelings

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

Men, Sometimes, Duty

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell

Time, Different, Ordinary

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell

War, Evil, Often

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

Politics, Yourself, Cannot

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

Good, True, Nothing

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

Language, Creation, Workers

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell

Men, Good, Technical

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

Truth, Unhappy, Altogether

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell

Best, Eyes, Reason

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell

Lost, Battle, Won

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell

Progress, Happens, Illusion

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
George Orwell

Idea, False, Teeth

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25, 1903

Died: January 21, 1950

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