59 quotes by George Orwell

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell

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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” — George Orwell

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“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

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“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” — George Orwell

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“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

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” — George Orwell

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“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.” — George Orwell

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“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.” — George Orwell

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell

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“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

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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell

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“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” — George Orwell

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“There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.” — George Orwell

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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” — George Orwell

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“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.” — George Orwell

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“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.” — George Orwell

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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — George Orwell

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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.” — George Orwell

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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell

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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell

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“Good writing is like a windowpane.” — George Orwell

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“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

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“It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.” — George Orwell

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“Four legs good, two legs bad.” — George Orwell

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