1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.