Quotes by George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

#George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both...

#George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the...

#George Orwell

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely...

#George Orwell

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind...

#George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

#George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

#George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who...

#George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

#George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

#George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

#George Orwell

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

#George Orwell