1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.