George Orwell Quotes about Fighting

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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell

Dirty, Fighting, Survival

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

George Orwell

War, Dirty, Fighting

"Looking Back on the Spanish War". Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

George Orwell

Fighting, Insecure, Economic Inequality

George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.150, Jester House Publishing

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

George Orwell

War, Fighting, Soldier

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell

Soccer, Football, Fighting

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

George Orwell

Military, War, Fighting

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

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

George Orwell

Real, Fighting, Night

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

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

George Orwell

Pain, Struggle, Fighting

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

George Orwell

Fighting, Men, Class

"The Road to Wigan Pier". Book by George Orwell (Diary 6-10 February), March 8, 1937.

It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

George Orwell

War, Ignorance, Fighting

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

George Orwell

Party, Fighting, Warrior

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

George Orwell

Fighting, Frivolous

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.

George Orwell

Fighting, Thinking, Political

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt