124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 81. The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to t ...
- 82. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies ...
- 83. The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one' ...
- 84. The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will ...
- 85. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to co ...
- 86. The existence of good bad literature -- the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by ...
- 87. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's d ...
- 88. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's d ...
- 89. The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat alway ...
- 90. The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality ...
- 91. The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all fro ...
- 92. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r ...
- 93. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is p ...
- 94. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- 95. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible ...
- 96. There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- 97. There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si ...
- 98. They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it.
- 99. Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle ...
- 100. To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not ...
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