George Orwell Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

• The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

  George Orwell

  Past, Race, Years

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Men, Tears

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.126, Arcturus Publishing

• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Penguins, Splendid

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

• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Hypocrisy, Behaviour

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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