George Orwell

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

George Orwell

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking.

George Orwell

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

George Orwell

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

George Orwell