George Orwell

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn’t been around a manure pile.

George Orwell

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child’s point of view.

George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Orwell

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

George Orwell

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

George Orwell

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

George Orwell