George Orwell Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

• 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

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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

  George Orwell

  Fear, Effectiveness, Challenges

  George Orwell (1987). “Animal farm: a fairy story”, Harvill Secker

• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Atheist, Catholic, Religion

• 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

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Atheism, Anarchist

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

  George Orwell

  Judging, Atheism, Saint

  Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Reflections on Gandhi"

• The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Party, Important

  "1984".

• Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Fear, War, Atheism

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.16, Hamilton Books

• A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

  George Orwell

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "1984".

• One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Being Sad, Atheism

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.448, W. W. Norton & Company

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