George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“Big Brother is watching you.”

“Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.”

“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”