George Orwell Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

• A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

  George Orwell

  Mind, Duty, Knows

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

  George Orwell

  Writing, Flying, Trying

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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