Quotes By George Orwell

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

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.

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.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.