1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Ortodoxia înseamnă a nu gândi - a nu avea nevoie să gândești. Ortodoxia înseamnă lipsa conștiinței.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I find myself thinking, "Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer?" You know the answer, of course.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Few people have the guts to say outright that art and propaganda are the same thing.

Society is wrong somewhere at the root.