George Orwell Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

• The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

  George Orwell

  Perfect, Liberty, Libertarian

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.44, Arcturus Publishing

• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

• The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Suffering

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Jobs, Party

• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Freedom, Liberty

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Liberty, Literature

  1946 'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic, Jan.

• Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

  George Orwell

  Liberty, Ribbons

  "Complete novels of George Orwell".

• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Thinking, Liberty

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

• The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

  George Orwell

  Smart, Book, Men

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

• The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

  George Orwell

  Liberty, Would Be, Poverty

  George Orwell (1947). “The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White”, London, Collins

• 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”

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