George Orwell Quotes.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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.
It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
