George Orwell | Quotes Collection

"Big Brother is watching you." George Orwell

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." George Orwell

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power." George Orwell

"By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power." George Orwell

"The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." George Orwell

"The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system." George Orwell

"We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary." George Orwell

"One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing." George Orwell

"Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf." George Orwell

"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane." George Orwell

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." George Orwell

"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence." George Orwell

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." George Orwell

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." George Orwell