George Orwell: Quotes

• Age and Aging

  At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.George Orwell

• Communism and Socialism

  As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier

• Equality

  All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.George Orwell: Animal Farm

• Generations

  Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell: Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of Georg

• History

  “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”George Orwell: 1984

• Sports

  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.George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant

• Tyranny

  If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.George Orwell: 1984

• Tyranny

  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.George Orwell: 1984

• War

  The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant

• Weight

  I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?George Orwell: Coming up For Air