1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

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

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him; or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.