Famous Quotes / George Orwell
124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 101. To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- 102. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe ...
- 103. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- 104. To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration camps, rubber trunc ...
- 105. To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
- 106. To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
- 107. To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi ...
- 108. To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever wri ...
- 109. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f ...
- 110. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of ...
- 111. War is Peace
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- 112. War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
- 113. We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men ...
- 114. We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- 115. We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be ...
- 116. We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...
- 117. What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
- 118. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter.
- 119. Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of ...
- 120. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.