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British - Author June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950 See also: Quotes about George Orwell

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

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

Future Imagination Vision

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

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

Peace Men Night

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

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

Future Past Present

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 Wind Language

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. - George Orwell

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell

Happiness Acceptance Only

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. George Orwell

Violence Others Who

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

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

Liberty People Right

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

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

Strength Peace Freedom

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

Truth History World

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 Night Sleep

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

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

Freedom People Right

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

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

War Always Therefore

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell

Power End Dictatorship

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

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

Equality Animals More

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell

Imagination Generation More

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

Politics Age Political

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. George Orwell

Fire Hot People

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

Man Milk Rabbits

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. George Orwell

Great Long Words

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

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

Men Duty Sometimes

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

War Sports Jealousy

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. - George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell

Language Thought Corrupts

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

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

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

Dictatorship Revolution Order

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

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

Freedom Two Four

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

Your Yourself More

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell

Perfection Being Human Human

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

Fighting People Hatred

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

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

Life Happiness Men

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

Fight Yourself Survive

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

Own Side Hearing

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

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

Intelligence Believe Ideas

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

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

War Lose Ending

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. George Orwell

Advertising Stick Inside

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

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

Good Time Human

George Orwell War Quotes

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell

Power Nationalism Hunger

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

Chaos Political Improvement

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell

Religion Socialism Worst

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

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

Good Men Development

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

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

Battle Battles Lost

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell

Life Newspaper Early

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

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

Patriotism Always Hatred

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

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

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

Equality Manners Wealth

Good writing is like a windowpane. George Orwell

Good Writing Like

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

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. George Orwell

Face Everyone He

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

Progress Illusion Slow

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

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

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

Time Political Writing

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Power Without Liberal

Big Brother is watching you. - George Orwell

Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell

Brother Big Watching

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. George Orwell

Rebellion Dirty Joke

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

Moment Always Winning

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. George Orwell

Police Sun Earth

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. George Orwell

Family Control Wrong

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

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