124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 41. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl ...
- 42. It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's ...
- 43. It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior person ...
- 44. It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- 45. Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
- 46. Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- 47. Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- 48. Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
- 49. Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
- 50. Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...
- 51. Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by ...
- 52. Mr Wells […]belongs to the non military middle class. The thunder of guns, the jingle of spurs, the ...
- 53. Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- 54. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- 55. No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali ...
- 56. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thin ...
- 57. No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
- 58. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ...
- 59. On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
- 60. One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume ...
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