Quotes By George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

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.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.