George Orwell Quotes

إذا تمسكت بالحقيقة مخالفا العالم برمته فإنك لست مجنون.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.

If Dickens were alive to-day he would make a trip to Soviet Russia and come back with a book rather like Gide's Retour de L'URSS.

[E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism.