The more intelligent, the less sane George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! George Orwell soulclassaverage In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave. George Orwell kingspastpromise By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. George Orwell meanbelievepeople The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside George Orwell fallacygovernmentbelieve My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught. George Orwell sealakesmemories One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man. George Orwell anarchistatheismmen Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true. George Orwell party Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. George Orwell guiltysainttests The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace. George Orwell nineteenbecomingwar I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! George Orwell spaineasycountry The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. George Orwell profanityvoicestrong I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press. George Orwell stupidityvoicebelieve ... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak. George Orwell strongsimplelong To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife. George Orwell dangeroussolitudetaste The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing. George Orwell parispartynew-york The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb George Orwell hospitalstombs [Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. George Orwell political-languagetogetherhouse How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? George Orwell appealspiecespaper [T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. George Orwell sacrificepoliticalintegrity I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income. George Orwell fightingclassmen
