George Orwell Quotes

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

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

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

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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

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

Four legs good, two legs bad.

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

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed.

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

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.