Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Orwell

• The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
• The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
• War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
• War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
• We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
• Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.