1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

[The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).

As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose — a political, social and religious purpose — that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: don’t let it happen. It depends on you.

...for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air. It is merely an instinct which cannot be disobeyed

It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.