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George Orwell Quotes - Page 22

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You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Sanity, Submission

George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Birthday, Trust, Eight

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Fun, Earthquakes

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

Sweat, Sound, Pay

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.57, Lulu.com

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Cogs, Machines, Capitalist

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

Attitude, Swimming, Nineteen

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.210, Arcturus Publishing

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

Mistake, Hands, People

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

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Community, Nonsense, Individual

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

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

Imperialism, Kipling

"All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays".

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

Saint, Tests, Guilty

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

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

Flames, People, Desire

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

Writing, Political, Historical

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

Childhood, Saint, World

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Intelligent, Understanding, Delusion

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

Hate, Want, Bones

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.222, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Time, Children, Humorous

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Argument, Found, Ifs

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.20, Hamilton Books

The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

New York, Party, Paris

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

Circles, Ideas, Forever

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

Brother, Past, Men

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.25, Arcturus Publishing

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

War, Party, Government

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

Summer, Peace, War

1939 Coming Up For Air, pt.2, ch.1.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

War, Nineteen, Becoming

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.431, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

Thinking, Important, Needs

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Funny, Dirty, Naughty

"The Art of Donald McGill" (1941)

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