1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.