124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 61. One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
- 62. One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the ...
- 63. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
- 64. Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looki ...
- 65. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t ...
- 66. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
- 67. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives t ...
- 68. Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give ...
- 69. Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- 70. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re ...
- 71. Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that pres ...
- 72. Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al ...
- 73. Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quie ...
- 74. Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
- 75. Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha ...
- 76. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
- 77. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...
- 78. So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire ...
- 79. Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- 80. The "Communism" of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of ...
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