1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

What happens to you here is forever.