George Orwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

“Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.”

“We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.”

“Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”