Quotes By George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell