George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”

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

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

“Man 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.”

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

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

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