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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
By George Orwell
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
By George Orwell
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
By George Orwell
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
By George Orwell
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
By George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
By George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
By George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
By George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
By George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
By George Orwell
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
By George Orwell
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
By George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
By George Orwell
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
By George Orwell
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
By George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
By George Orwell
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
By 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.
By George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
By George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
By George Orwell
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
By George Orwell