George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

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

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

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

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”

“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”

“Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.”

“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”

“The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.”