Top 101 Quotes by George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

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