George Orwell Quotes - Page 14

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Orthodoxy, Unconsciousness

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  George Orwell

  Communication, Joints, Language

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

  George Orwell

  Love, Men, Faces

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• [T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

  George Orwell

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Political

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

  George Orwell

  Government, Punishment, People

  "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".

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• When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

  George Orwell

  Men, White Man, Tyrants

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

  George Orwell

  Long, Style, Alive

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

  George Orwell

  Alcohol, Doubt, Saint

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Heritage, Heard, Sane

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

  George Orwell

  Beautiful, Language, Absurd

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

  George Orwell

  Hate, Writing, Men

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• If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

  George Orwell

  Investing, Results, Feels

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• So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

  George Orwell

  Football, Children, Home

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• The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

  George Orwell

  Stars, Eye, Cost

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

  George Orwell

  Children, Beer, Gathering

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Freedom, Liberty

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Naughty, Nasty

  Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill"

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• Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Punishment, People

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.97, Jester House Publishing

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• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Thinking, Liberty

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

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• Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

  George Orwell

  Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Privacy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Skulls, Long

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.76, Jester House Publishing

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• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Revenge, Punishment

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  People, Temptation, Saint

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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