George Orwell Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• 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

• 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

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

  George Orwell

  Believe, Political, Intellectual

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

  82 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

  40 Copy quote

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

  George Orwell

  Dollars, Way, Million Dollars

  54 Copy quote

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

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Want

  26 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)

  36 Copy quote

• Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

  George Orwell

  Life, Fake People, Events

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  18 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

  51 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

• 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

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

  George Orwell

  Believe, Intelligent, Ideas

  43 Copy quote

• Big Brother is watching you.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Government, Bigs

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

  14 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.

  29 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

  58 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"

  32 Copy quote

• The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Father, Son, Persistence

  "1984".

  69 Copy quote

• Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

  George Orwell

  Worship, Politician, Thrive

  20 Copy quote

• Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Substitutes

  26 Copy quote

• The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

  George Orwell

  War, Hands, Two

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  27 Copy quote

• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Time, Funny Life

  1942 'The Art of Donald McGill'.

  43 Copy quote

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

  George Orwell

  Winning, Achievement, Corrupt Power

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

  65 Copy quote

Page 4 of 31

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin