George Orwell
- Country : United Kingdom
- Profession :Author
- DOB: 1903-06-25
George Orwell(June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950)
was an influential English writer and essayist renowned for his incisive critiques of totalitarianism, political corruption, and social injustice. Born as Eric Arthur Blair in India, he adopted the pen name George Orwell for his literary works. Orwell is best known for his dystopian novels “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “Animal Farm,” which have become classic works of political literature. His writing is characterized by a commitment to truth, clarity, and a deep concern for individual freedom. Orwell’s experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War and working as a journalist informed his powerful and enduring commentary on the dangers of authoritarianism and the abuse of power.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
Author: George OrwellSometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Author: George OrwellIt is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last—genuinely down and out.
Author: George OrwellYour worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment, the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
Author: George OrwellOf pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.
Author: George OrwellBy preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except the steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
Author: George OrwellPower is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Author: George OrwellThere is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years.
Author: George OrwellIn general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
Author: George OrwellIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
Author: George OrwellJournalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
Author: George OrwellConfession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you, that would be the real betrayal.
Author: George OrwellAn autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Author: George OrwellFor a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Author: George OrwellMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Author: George OrwellThe distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
Author: George OrwellMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Author: George OrwellIf you hate violence and don’t believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.
Author: George OrwellOne defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.
Author: George OrwellOne must choose between God and Man, and all “radicals” and “progressives”, from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
Author: George OrwellNo one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Author: George OrwellPeople can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Author: George OrwellThere is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher’s daughter.
Author: George OrwellMost people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.
Author: George OrwellIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
Author: George OrwellIf both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Author: George OrwellIf you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, “I’m a free man in here” – he tapped his forehead – “and you’re all right.”
Author: George OrwellThreats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
Author: George OrwellThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
Author: George OrwellSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Author: George OrwellAs with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Author: George OrwellA people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.
Author: George OrwellOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Author: George OrwellPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Author: George OrwellPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Author: George OrwellUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Author: George OrwellIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
Author: George OrwellI am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.
Author: George OrwellIt is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.
Author: George OrwellMan is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time.
Author: George OrwellThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
Author: George OrwellWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
Author: George OrwellEvery line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.
Author: George OrwellPower-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Author: George OrwellA 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.
Author: George OrwellHe felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
Author: George OrwellIt was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same–everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same–people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
Author: George OrwellThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Author: George OrwellEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Author: George OrwellDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Author: George OrwellLooking at the whole world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery.
Author: George OrwellIn every one of those little stucco boxes, there”s some poor bastard who”s never free except when he”s fast asleep and dreaming.
Author: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Author: George OrwellIt’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything—anything—but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.
Author: George OrwellThis is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.
Author: George OrwellEvery record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
Author: George OrwellAll tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
Author: George OrwellThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Author: George OrwellIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
Author: George OrwellThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
Author: George OrwellThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Author: George OrwellPolitical 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.
Author: George Orwell