George Orwell Quotes

George Orwell (111)

Birth:	25th June, 1903
Death:	21st January, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Writer

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• …Every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Death

• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Virtue, Humour

• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Creature, Producing
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  War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Foreign, Profit, Happens

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing
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  Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Freedom

• Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Writing

• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Dictatorship, Revolution

• It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personality, Struggles, Writing

• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Truth

• If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Perfection, Truth

  Tags in Human

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Freedom, Slavery

• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Future, Inspirational
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  We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Darkness

• Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Beings, Temptation

• Big Brother is watching you.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brother

• Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Political, Language

• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously,

  George Orwell

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Contradictory