59 quotes by George Orwell

“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” — George Orwell

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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” — George Orwell

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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell

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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” — George Orwell

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“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” — George Orwell

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

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“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” — George Orwell

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“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.” — George Orwell

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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” — George Orwell

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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” — George Orwell

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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” — 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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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” — 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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“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.” — George Orwell

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“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.” — George Orwell

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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.” — George Orwell

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

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“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.” — George Orwell

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“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” — George Orwell

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“Four legs good, two legs bad.” — 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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“Good writing is like a windowpane.” — George Orwell

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