Quotes from George Orwell

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Big Brother is watching you.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

International sport is war without shooting.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

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.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.