George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

The belly comes before the soul.

George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

George Orwell

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

George Orwell

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

George Orwell

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

George Orwell

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell