1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.