"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about t...
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
More George Orwell quotes
"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he s...
"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies... Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure...
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot ru...
"A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell...
"A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
"I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t more men than jobs. It’s brought a pec...
"Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
"In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood th...
"The Assault Guards had one submachine-gun between ten men and an automatic pistol each; we at the front had approximately one machine-gun between fift...
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, exc...
"In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in t...
"A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of...
"Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clea...