Quotes from George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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?

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

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

Rich people are poor people with money.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

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

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

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.