George Orwell Quotes

“Windmill or no windmill . . . life would go on as it had always gone on—that is, badly.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

topic:life difficulty

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:death freedom hate

“Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:death

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

topic:death good war humanity

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:death freedom loneliness

“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:happiness politics

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

topic:truth politics language

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth memory past

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth loneliness madness

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth loneliness humanity

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