Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL -
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.
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 -
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL -
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELL -
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELL