George Orwell Quotes

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
George Orwell

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

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

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

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

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

George Orwell Quotes
		For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. George Orwell Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Author Quotes Category: British Author Quotes Date of Birth: June 25, 1903 Date of Death: January 21, 1950 Nationality: British Amazon: George Orwell on Amazon	Related Authors: C. S. Lewis Virginia Woolf James Allen George Eliot Neil Gaiman Jackie Collins J. G. Ballard Ian Fleming
		Select George Orwell Quotations: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell
Quote Keywords: Creative, Emotional, Important, Less, Possession, Sincerity, Than, Truth, Writer	Dictionary Links: Creative, Emotional, Important, Less, Possession, Sincerity, Than, Truth, Writer	All George Orwell Quotations: A dirty joke is a sort... A family with the wrong members... A tragic situation exists precisely when... Advertising is the rattling of a... All animals are equal, but some... All political thinking for years past... All the war-propaganda, all the... As I write, highly civilized human... As with the Christian religion, the... At fifty everyone has the face... Big Brother is watching you. But if thought corrupts language, language... Dickens is one of those authors... Doublethink means the power of holding two... During times of universal deceit, telling... Each generation imagines itself to be... Early in life I had noticed... Enlightened people seldom or never possess... Every war when it comes, or... For a creative writer possession of... Four legs good, two legs bad. Freedom is the freedom to say... Freedom is the right to tell... Good writing is like a windowpane. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. He was an embittered atheist, the... I doubt whether classical education ever... I sometimes think that the price... I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... If liberty means anything at all... If you have embraced a creed... If you want a vision of... In a time of universal deceit... In our age there is no... In our time political speech and... In times of universal deceit, telling... It is almost universally felt that... It is also true that one... Joyce is a poet and also... Language ought to be the joint... Liberal: a power worshipper without power. Man is the only creature that... Mankind is not likely to salvage... Many people genuinely do not want... Men are only as good as... Men can only be happy when... Most people get a fair amount... Myths which are believed in tend... Nationalism is power hunger tempered by... No advance in wealth, no softening... No one can look back on... Not to expose your true feelings... Oceania was at war with Eurasia... On the whole, human beings want... One can love a child, perhaps... One cannot really be a Catholic... One does not establish a dictatorship... Part of the reason for the... Patriotism is usually stronger than class... People sleep peaceably in their beds... Political chaos is connected with the... Political language... is designed to make... Power is not a means, it... Probably the battle of Waterloo was... Progress is not an illusion, it... Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is... Saints should always be judged guilty... Serious sport has nothing to do... Serious sport is war minus the shooting. So much of left-wing thought... Society has always seemed to demand... Sometimes the first duty of intelligent... The aim of a joke is... The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always... The atom bombs are piling up... The best books... are those that... The Catholic and the Communist are... The essence of being human is... The essential act of war is... The great enemy of clear language... The idea really came to me... The intellectual is different from the... The nationalist not only does not... The quickest way of ending a... The very concept of objective truth... There are some ideas so wrong... There is hardly such a thing... To an ordinary human being, love... To survive it is often necessary... To walk through the ruined cities... War against a foreign country only... War is a way of shattering... War is evil, but it is... War is peace. Freedom is slavery... War is war. The only good... We have now sunk to a... We may find in the long... We of the sinking middle class... We sleep safe in our beds... What can you do against the... Whatever is funny is subversive, every... When it comes to the pinch... Who controls the past controls the... Whoever is winning at the moment...

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