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George Orwell Quotes - Page 15

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Animal, Men, Eggs

Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Lonely, Long, Broken

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

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Loss, Mysterious Things, Mind

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

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Art, Writing, Math

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Revolutionary, Anarchist, Should

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

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

War, Lying, Drug

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.31, Arcturus Publishing

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Men, Rough, Civilized

"Rudyard Kipling" (1942). This is the closest passage in Orwell's writings that has been found to the following quotation popularly attributed to him: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf " (or sometimes, "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us").

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Consequence

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

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Money, Book, Writing

George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

Energy, Tests, Get Money

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Family, Insulting, Phrases

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England"

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

Believe, Skulls, Long

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.76, Jester House Publishing

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

Morning, Horse, Party

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Liberty, Would Be, Poverty

George Orwell (1947). “The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White”, London, Collins

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Regret, Grandchildren, Tree

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

People, Temptation, Saint

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

Lying, Hands, Egypt

"Nineteen Eighty-four".

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

Mistake, Believe, Reality

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Class, Hatred, Patriotism

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

Loneliness, People, Age

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Fear, Struggle, Class

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 13

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Hate, Dies

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.212, Arcturus Publishing

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

Rebel

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.118, Arcturus Publishing

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Alcohol, Doubt, Saint

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Animal, Causes, Farms

George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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