Quotes by George Orwell

George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair)
Alive from: 1903-1950
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes 1 till 15 of 178.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
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A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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