124 Quotations by George Orwell
- 21. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- 22. Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
- 23. From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
- 24. Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about t ...
- 25. He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or ...
- 26. He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal ...
- 27. History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
- 28. I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. […] One can wri ...
- 29. I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- 30. If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he ...
- 31. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- 32. If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do t ...
- 33. If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics -- a c ...
- 34. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
- 35. If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
- 36. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- 37. In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he' ...
- 38. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less ...
- 39. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and ...
- 40. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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