1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

The object of powder is powder.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.