Best and Most Amazing Quotes of George Orwell That You Can’t Resist

George Orwell was one of the most influential writers in the world. He is the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four, along with non-fictional masterpieces such as Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier. Orwell was a strong critic of totalitarianism and an advocate for social justice.

George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903. He was born in a lower-upper-middle class family. His father served the British Empire.

Orwell only became popular after his death. By the time of his death in 1950, he had already become a world-renowned journalist and author for his reporting on war (shot in the neck in Spain) and on poverty (tramping in London, dishwashing in Paris, visits to pits and the poor in Wigan), for his cultural and political commentary and for his fiction.

His clear writing style and political purpose have influenced and inspired numerous journalists and authors of all generations across the world.

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” – George Orwell

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” -George Orwell

 “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell

  “War is peace.
   Freedom is slavery.

  Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – 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

“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” – George Orwell

“ Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” – George Orwell

“Being in a minority, even in 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

“ Big Brother is Watching You.” – George Orwell

“ It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” – George Orwell

“ But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” – George Orwell

“ Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell

“ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” – George Orwell

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”- George Orwell

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” – George Orwell

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” – George Orwell

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.” – George Orwell
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”  – George Orwell

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.” – George Orwell

“ Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.” George Orwell

“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”-George Orwell

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.” – George Orwell

“ And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.” – George Orwell

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

“ The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” – George Orwell

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” – George Orwell

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

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

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” George Orwell

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” -George Orwell

“ The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” -George Orwell

 “ In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.” – George Orwell

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” -George Orwell

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

“ If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.” – George Orwell

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.” – George Orwell

“ If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” – George Orwell

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