George Orwell

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

George Orwell

How right the working classes are in their ‘materialism.’ How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

George Orwell

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

George Orwell

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one’s blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

George Orwell

I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.

George Orwell

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

George Orwell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

George Orwell

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell