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George Orwell Quotes - Page 10

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Never use a long word where a short one will do.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

Long, Use, Simile

George Orwell (1961). “Collected essays”

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

Children, Writing, Thinking

George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Animal, Men, Pigs

Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945)

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Equality, Reform, Literature

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Work, Progress, Illusion

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Lying, There Is Hope, 1984 Movie

George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.23, Oberon Books

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Failure, Winning, Games

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Lying, Men, Giving

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

Honesty, Integrity, Lying

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Fate, Jokes, Series

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.30, Lulu.com

All art is propaganda.

Art, Propaganda, Art Is

George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Military, War, Suffering

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

War, Nineteen, Position

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.144, Arcturus Publishing

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

Brother, Struggle, Taken

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Love, Marriage, Giving

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Darkness, Nineteen, 1984 Important

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

Attitude, Book, Mind

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

Writing, Effort, Leaving

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

Romantic, Hair, Smell

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

Long, Donkey, Long Time

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Dog, Cracks, Circus

"The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945".

I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

People, Defeat, Communism

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

Love You, Men, Care

George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

Real, War, Practice

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

Thinking, Mind, Atheism

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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