124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 1. A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- 2. A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
- 3. A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man ...
- 4. Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- 5. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- 6. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writ ...
- 7. An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good ...
- 8. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
- 9. At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
- 10. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
- 11. Big Brother is watching you.
- 12. But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the ...
- 13. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and a ...
- 14. Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
- 15. Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
- 16. Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser ...
- 17. Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen ...
- 18. For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
- 19. For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or ...
- 20. Four legs good, two legs bad.
George Orwell Quotes by Power Quotations
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