Memorable Quotes of George Orwell

Memorable Quotes of George Orwell

 

 Ø All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Ø Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Ø If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want    to hear.

Ø To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Ø Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

Ø Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before   it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Ø The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Ø Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Ø Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Ø If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Ø Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. 1984

Ø We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Ø There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

Ø Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Ø People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf