George Orwell Quotes – Insightful Words from the Renowned Author

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Big Brother is watching you.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

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

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.

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.

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

George Orwell Quotes – Insightful Words from the Renowned Author part 2

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

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

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you keep the small rules, you can break the big ones.

For the future, relentless working, playing politics, and learning from mistakes is the way to succeed.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.

A people that elect corrupt politicians…are not victims…but accomplices.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The lie always offers comfort.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

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

Freedom is the ability to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

If you command me to do things that conflict with my moral standards, I will refuse.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

Power consists in being able to make people believe that one’s interests are their interests.

Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.