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George Orwell Quotes - Page 13

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A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Food, Bags, Eating

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.62, Jester House Publishing

The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

Art, War, Memorable

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Football, Children, Home

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

Children, Beer, Gathering

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

Eye, Doors, Voice

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Language, Foolish, Easier

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

Humans, Human Relations, Human Relationships

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

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

Past, Achievement, Principles

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Country, England, Ashamed

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Men, White Man, Tyrants

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

War, Party, Ignorance

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Literature, Stealing, Wells

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Heritage, Heard, Sane

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Freedom, Thinking, Liberty

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Animal, Half, Tyranny

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.22, Hamilton Books

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Perfect, Liberty, Libertarian

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.44, Arcturus Publishing

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

Wisdom, Charming Smile, Clothes

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

Military, War, Fighting

George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Dog, Freedom, Liberty

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

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

Jobs, Punishment, People

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.97, Jester House Publishing

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

Drug, Machines, Surrender

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.135, Jester House Publishing

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

War, Struggle, Heart

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Strong, Years, Tea

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

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