George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

George Orwell

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

George Orwell

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

George Orwell

Man 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.

George Orwell

Man’s greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person’s writing.

George Orwell

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

George Orwell

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

George Orwell

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

George Orwell

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

George Orwell