1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Solamente el viejo Benjamín sostenía que recordaba cada detalle de su larga vida y que sabía que las cosas nunca habían sido, ni jamás podrían ser, mucho mejores o mucho peores. El hambre, las privaciones y las frustraciones eran, según afirmaba, la ley inalterable de la vida.

I thought it idiotic that people fightingfor their lives should have separate parties; my attitude always was, ’Why can’t wedrop all this political nonsense and get on with the war?’ This of course was thecorrect ’anti-Fascist’ attitude which had been carefully disseminated by the Englishnewspapers, largely in order to prevent people from grasping the real nature of thestruggle.

I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings.

It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins

That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.