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

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

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

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

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

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

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

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

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

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

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

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

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

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell

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

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell