Enjoy the best George Orwell Quotes. Quotations by George Orwell (English Novelist)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.