George Orwell
1984, Animal Farm
Sayings by George Orwell
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.
The word 'socialism' has been so twisted and distorted that it means almost nothing.
The English are not a spiritual people. They are a practical people.
The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
The trouble with England is that it is not a country, it is a family.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The English are not good at thinking, but they are good at feeling.
The most frightening thing about the world is that it is full of people who believe in things.
The proles, if only they could become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
All that was required was an endless series of victories over your own memory.
The great mass of the people are not interested in politics.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
The English intellectual is a sort of Europeanized Indian.
The average man is not a fool, but he is a coward.
It is not merely that we are not allowed to be truthful, but that we are compelled to be dishonest.
The very word 'truth' has ceased to have any meaning.
The greatest danger to Western civilization is not communism, but the intellectual who thinks he is a communist.
The only way to keep a secret is to tell it to no one.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.