George Orwell

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

George Orwell

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

George Orwell

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

George Orwell

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

George Orwell