George Orwell Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Reality, Mind

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.72, Dramatic Publishing

  26 Copy quote

• Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

  George Orwell

  Running, Past, Class

  50 Copy quote

• Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Want

  26 Copy quote

• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Intelligent, Ideas

  43 Copy quote

• Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

  George Orwell

  Political, Nineteen, Impossible

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 5 (1949)

  34 Copy quote

• The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

  George Orwell

  Light, Faces, Pushing

  10 Copy quote

• The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

  George Orwell

  Long, Mass, Standards

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  49 Copy quote

• The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

  George Orwell

  Murder, Terrorism, Oppression

  54 Copy quote

• Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

  George Orwell

  Mad, Nineteen, Minorities

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  48 Copy quote

• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

  12 Copy quote

• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

  George Orwell

  Men, May, Failing

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

• Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

  George Orwell

  Meaningless

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  15 Copy quote
• 

  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”

  36 Copy quote

• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Courage, Truth, Struggle

  Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

  31 Copy quote

• One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

  George Orwell

  Sex, Fruit Juice, Feminist

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

  24 Copy quote

• Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

  George Orwell

  Real, Doe, Want

  39 Copy quote

• The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

  George Orwell

  Dollars, Way, Million Dollars

  53 Copy quote

• Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

  27 Copy quote

• Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

  George Orwell

  Worship, Politician, Thrive

  20 Copy quote

• Power is not a means; it is an end.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Ends

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

  11 Copy quote

• You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Political, Intellectual

  15 Copy quote

• Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

  George Orwell

  Responsibility, People, Literature

  10 Copy quote

• The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

  George Orwell

  Humility, Fools Day, Aggravation

  54 Copy quote

• Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

  55 Copy quote

• You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

  George Orwell

  Trying, Easy, Harder

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.539, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

Page 4 of 31

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin