To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – George Orwell
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. – George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. – George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell
Serious sport is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. – George Orwell
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. – George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell
