Best George Orwell Quotes and Sayings

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George Orwell Quotes: So, here we go with the Best Quotations by George Orwell of all times

➦ If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

➦ He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

➦ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

➦ All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

➦ All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

➦ As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

➦ At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

➦ Big Brother is watching you.

➦ But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

➦ Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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

Here are Some Quotations From George Orwell

➦ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

➦ Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

➦ Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

➦ For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.

➦ Four legs good, two legs bad.

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

➦ Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

➦ Good writing is like a windowpane.

➦ Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell Quotes and Sayings

➦ He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

➦ I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

➦ I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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

➦ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

➦ 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?

➦ If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

➦ In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

➦ In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

➦ In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

➦ In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

➦ It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

➦ It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."

➦ Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

➦ Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

➦ Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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