George Orwell Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

• 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)

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

• I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Life, Talking

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

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

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19
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  Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

  George Orwell

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  Shooting an Elephant 'Reflections on Gandhi'

• Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

  George Orwell

  Life, Fake People, Events

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Orthodoxy, Unconsciousness

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

  George Orwell

  Life, Death, War

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

  George Orwell

  Life, Differences, Long

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

  George Orwell

  Life, Regret, Decision

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