At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELL -
To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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 -
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL -
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
GEORGE ORWELL -
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.
GEORGE ORWELL -
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELL