1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

Man’s greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person’s writing.

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense, it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order.

It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do.

He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon – so long as there is no answer to it – gives claws to the weak.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ’controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one’s blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.