George Orwell

George OrwellEric 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