George Orwell | Quotes Collection

"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges." George Orwell

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

"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them." George Orwell

"It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other." George Orwell

"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." George Orwell

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." George Orwell

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done"… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals." George Orwell

"These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you." George Orwell

"So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." George Orwell

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations." George Orwell

"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell