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George Orwell Quotes - Page 12

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Democratic Socialism, Serious Work, Lines

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Daughter, Writing, Way

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

Love, Men, Faces

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Love, Betrayal, Real

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Revolutionary, Fascists, Militia

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.96, Oberon Books

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Communication, Joints, Language

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

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

Stars, Eye, Cost

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Pain, Hero, Faces

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Autobiography, Disgraceful, Trusted

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

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

Loneliness, Mean, Worry

George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

Religious, Spring, War

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Nineteen, April, Cold

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

Party

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Sports, War, Squash

The belly comes before the soul.

Soul, Human Nature, Belly

George Orwell (2000). “Essays”, p.325, Penguin UK

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

Dirty, Humor, Wish

"The Art of Donald McGill" (1941)

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

Writing, Successful, Artist

George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

Government, Punishment, People

"Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell".

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

Believe, Mean, People

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Stupidity, Difficult

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Long, Style, Alive

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

Integrity, Sacrifice, Political

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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