Quote: Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. [George Orwell]
Quote: To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. [George Orwell]
Quote: The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. [George Orwell]
Quote: As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents. [George Orwell]
Quote: One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. [George Orwell]
Quote: To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. [George Orwell]
Quote: A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. [George Orwell]
Quote: Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. [George Orwell]
Quote: One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. [George Orwell]
Quote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. [George Orwell]
Quote: I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. [George Orwell]
Quote: No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. [George Orwell]
Quote: To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous. [George Orwell]
Quote: Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness [George Orwell]
Quote: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [George Orwell]
Quote: We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. [George Orwell]
Quote: Myths which are believed in tend to become true. [George Orwell]
Quote: A liberal is a power worshipper without the power. [George Orwell]
Quote: The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. [George Orwell]
Quote: The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. [George Orwell]
Quote: To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. [George Orwell]
Quote: The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. [George Orwell]
Quote: What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? [George Orwell]
Quote: Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. [George Orwell]
Quote: The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. [George Orwell]