He was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. Throughout his lifetime, the great English author continually questioned all “official” or “accepted” versions of history. He is considered one of the most prominent writers of the 1930s and 40s.
His intelligent voice and satirical style, combined with his harsh criticisms and brilliant essays, led Orwell to become one of the most celebrated novelists and a true master at the craft of writing.
(1903-1950)
– George Orwell Quotes –
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~ George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
~ George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
~ George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
~ George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.
~ 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
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
~ George Orwell
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
~ George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
~ George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
~ George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
~ George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
~ George Orwell
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
~ George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~ George Orwell
