George Orwell Quotes

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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
- George Orwell

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
- George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory.
- George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- George Orwell

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.
- George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
- George Orwell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
- George Orwell

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
- George Orwell

The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell

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

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- George Orwell

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past,controls the future.
- George Orwell