Quotes by George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

#George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

#George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to...

#George Orwell

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising...

#George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

#George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human...

#George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

#George Orwell

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

#George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as...

#George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without...

#George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane.

#George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

#George Orwell