1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.