1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.

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

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

Surely, comrades, you don’t want Jones back?

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.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.