1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.