Orwell Quotes

Orwell Quote of the day

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

We do not merely destroy our enemies

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Shame comes in different doses.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it.

The answer to 1984 is 1776

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home