George Orwell Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old George Orwell quotes, George Orwell sayings, and George Orwell proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. George Orwell
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. George Orwell
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. George Orwell
Writing a novel is agony. George Orwell
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened. George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell
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
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. George Orwell
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. George Orwell
Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower? George Orwell
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. George Orwell
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. George Orwell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell
The belly comes before the soul. George Orwell
An earthquake is such fun when it is over. George Orwell
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. George Orwell
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. George Orwell
Windmill or no windmill, he said life would go on as it has always gone on—that is, badly. George Orwell
All 'favorable' Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness. George Orwell