George Orwell Quotes

“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

topic:belief difference

“All nationalistic distinctions — all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect — are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

topic:belief

“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

― George Orwell, London Letter

topic:future politics

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future oppression tyranny

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future past present control

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:writing consciousness

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

topic:work tyranny

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

topic:man

“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:memory past history

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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