George Orwell Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

  George Orwell

  Mind, Enemy, Records

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

  George Orwell

  Blood, Enemy, Flesh

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

• In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

  George Orwell

  Country, Dark, Thinking

• Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

  George Orwell

  Motivational, Enemy, Truth Is

• It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Enemy, Language

  "All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays".

• Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Enemy, Atrocities

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

  George Orwell

  Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. 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 spurting out ink. 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. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Latin, Real

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

• All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Enemy

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

• Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Taken, Cat

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.3, Hamilton Books

• The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Fall, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Animal, Wings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

• Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

  George Orwell

  Real, Men, Roots

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

• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

• Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

  George Orwell

  Wings, Two, Enemy

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.33, Barron's Educational Series

• In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Perception, Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

  George Orwell

  Past, Agreement, Evil

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Talking, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

  George Orwell

  Issues, Discipline, Intellectual

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

• The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

  George Orwell

  Enemy, Felt, Untruth

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

• Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, Evil

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