George Orwell

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

George Orwell

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

George Orwell

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

George Orwell

And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.

George Orwell

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

George Orwell

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

George Orwell

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

George Orwell

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.

George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

George Orwell