George Orwell Quotes

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

George Orwell

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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

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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.

George Orwell

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell