Quotes by George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.