George Orwell Quotes

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face towards the flames.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.