Quotes from George Orwell

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

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



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.
George Orwell



Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell




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



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

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

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

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.
George Orwell


Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell



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

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell



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




Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell




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


The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell



The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

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.
George Orwell



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

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


War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

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


Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell

[E-Nice]

excellent post.

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell