George Orwell quotes

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear. (George Orwell)
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
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
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. (George Orwell)
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
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
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
George Orwell
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
George Orwell
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. (George Orwell)
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell