1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.