1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

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

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’

The more intelligent, the less sane.

One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.

Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!” It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

We were once told that the aeroplane had “abolished frontiers”; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.