George Orwell | Quotes Collection

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

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

"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." George Orwell

"The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good." George Orwell

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right." George Orwell

"The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside" George Orwell

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded." George Orwell

"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane." George Orwell

"Rich people are poor people with money." George Orwell

"In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer." George Orwell