Epic George Orwell Quotes YOU Should Know

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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