Quotes by George Orwell

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of polities. All issues are political issues.

Liberal - a power worshipper without power.

To see what is in front of ones nose needs a constant struggle.

Big Brother is watching you.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

International sport is war without shooting.

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

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.

No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

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

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.