George Orwell

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

Weakness is strength.

George Orwell

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

George Orwell

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist – after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

George Orwell

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.

George Orwell

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

George Orwell

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell