1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word – Man.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except “Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it”? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

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

In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolise the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.