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George Orwell Quotes - Page 14

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A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

Europe, Political, United States

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Fear, War, Atheism

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.16, Hamilton Books

Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

Exercise, Normal, Cheese

George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England”, p.353, Penguin UK

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Beautiful, Language, Absurd

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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?

Mean, Thinking, Years

"1984".

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Ordinary, Literature, Vegetarian

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

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Art, Attitude, Book

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

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

Discrimination, Colour, Instance

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

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Forever, Insanity, Nineteen

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.165, Arcturus Publishing

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

Giving, Politics, Negative

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

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

Class, Wipe, Tendencies

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

Enemy

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Speech, Use, Metaphor

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

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Dream, Revenge, Punishment

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Worry, Limits, Poverty

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

Funny, Witty, Religion

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Real, Fighting, Night

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

Happiness, Work, Play

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Privacy

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

Enemy, Felt, Untruth

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Tombs, Hospitals

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Cutting, Simile, Figures Of Speech

George Orwell (2013). “Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition”, p.332, Penguin UK

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Love, Pain, Hard Work

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.358, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Independent, Civilization, Evil

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

Nineteen, Doe, 1984 Important

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

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