George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

George Orwell

Four legs good, two legs bad.

George Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

George Orwell

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

George Orwell

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell