Quotes from George Orwell

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

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

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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.