George Orwell – Quotes

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.