Quotes by George Orwell with lies

George Orwell

George Orwell

English writer (ps. of Eric Blair)

Lived from: 1903 - 1950

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 june 1903 Died: 21 january 1950

  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
  • When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
  • 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?
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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  • All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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  • All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
    ― George Orwell
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  • Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
    Politics and the English Language (1945)
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  • The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
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  • The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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