Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
George Orwell Quotes
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
— George Orwell
Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
—George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
—George Orwell
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
—George Orwell
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
—George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
—George Orwell
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
—George Orwell
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
—George Orwell
The only good human being is a dead one.
—George Orwell
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
—George Orwell
The best books.. are those that tell you what you know already.
—George Orwell
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
—George Orwell
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
—George Orwell
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
—George Orwell
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
—George Orwell
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
—George Orwell
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
—George Orwell
Sanity is not statistical.
—George Orwell
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
—George Orwell
Every 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
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
—George Orwell
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
—George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
—George Orwell
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
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
—George Orwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
—George Orwell