Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. G
  4. George Orwell
  5. House

George Orwell Quotes about House

All George Orwell Quotes Acceptance Achievement Advertising Age Art Atheism Attitude Beer Belief Bones Childhood Children Choices Common Sense Communism Consciousness Corruption Country Darkness Deception Defeat Democracy Desire Devotion Doubt Duty Earth Effort Energy Evil Exercise Failing Fascism Fear Feelings Fighting Food Football Free Speech Freedom Freedom Of Speech Fun Funny Future Giving Greek Happiness Hate Hatred Heart History Home Honesty Horror House quotes Human Nature Hunger Ignorance Imitation Insanity Inspirational Integrity Intelligence Justice Language Latin Liberty Life Life And Death Literature Loneliness Loss Love Loyalty Lying Mask Memories Metaphor Military Pacifism Pain Past Patriotism Peace Perfection Philosophy Pleasure Police Politics Poverty Power Praise Progress Propaganda Reading Reality Religion Revolution Running Safety Sanity Slavery Sleep Soul Struggle Stupidity Style Suffering Survival Tea Time Totalitarianism Tragedy Truth Tyranny Understanding Vegetarian Victory Violence Wall War Water Winning Wisdom Worry Worship Writing
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison,

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

George Orwell
Jobs, Land, House
George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

George Orwell
Thinking, People, House
George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

George Orwell
Political Language, House, Together
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You May Also Like: