George Orwell

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

George Orwell

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.

George Orwell

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

George Orwell

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

George Orwell

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

George Orwell

One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

George Orwell

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

George Orwell

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

George Orwell

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

George Orwell