George Orwell Quotes

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

Not merely destroy you enemies, better change them.

Two and two are four. But, sometimes, they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts.... Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side....

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is itself a revolutionary act.

Although the hammer beats the anvil, it is the anvil which breaks the hammer. Never the other way around...

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.