George Orwell Quotes

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

Four legs good, two legs bad.

By George Orwell

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

By George Orwell

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

By 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.

By George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

By George Orwell

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves

By George Orwell

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

By George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

By George Orwell

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

By George Orwell

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

By George Orwell

...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

By George Orwell