George Orwell Quotes

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.