George Orwell Quotes

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

on Freedom

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

on Society

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

on Freedom

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."

on Wisdom

"Big Brother is watching you."

on Truth

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

on Language

"The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity."

on Writing

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

on Wisdom

"We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

on Politics

"...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures."

on Death

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

on Truth

"When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys."

on Freedom

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

on Writing

"It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you."

on Truth

"To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope."

on Hope