1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.