Quotes By George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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

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

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.