1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ....

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.