1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Empire– in essence nothing but mechanisms for exploiting coloured labor.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

If I did compress what I know and think about the spanish civil war into 6 lines you wouldn't print it. You wouldn't have the guts.