George Orwell | Quotes Collection

"We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!" George Orwell

"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" George Orwell

"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell

"Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils." George Orwell

"In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four." George Orwell

"Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere." George Orwell

"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force." George Orwell

"Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy" George Orwell

"When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on." George Orwell

"Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does." George Orwell

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." George Orwell

"Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist." George Orwell

"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box." George Orwell

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell