War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. – George Orwell
Four legs good, two legs bad. – George Orwell
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. – George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. – George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face — forever. – George Orwell
