30 George Orwell phrases to admire his stories

Journalism is publishing what someone doesn’t want published. Everything else is advertising.

When you love someone, you love, and when you have nothing else to give him, you still love him.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot crushing a human face forever.

In a time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Four-legged good, two-legged bad.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The mass keeps the brand, the brand keeps the media and the media controls the mass.

The further society distances itself from the truth, the more it hates those who reveal it.

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

The best books are the ones that tell us what we already knew.

Every war when it arrives, or before it arrives, is represented not as a war, but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

is nothing more than the sound of a stick hitting the boiler.

History is written by the victors.

If freedom means anything, it will be, above all, the right to tell other people what they don’t want to hear.

Enlightened people rarely if ever have a sense of responsibility.

The crime of thinking does not imply death. The crime of thinking is death itself.

From the moment it became general, wealth would lose its distinctive character.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two and two are four. When you agree on this, the rest will take care of itself.

Progress is not an illusion. It happens, but slowly. And it invariably ends up disappointing us.

Each generation imagines itself smarter than the one before it, and smarter than the one that comes after it.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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

When you say that a writer is fashionable, it means that he is admired by people under thirty.

The essence of being human is not to seek perfection.

The fastest way to end a war is to lose it!

Man is only as good as his technological development allows him to be.

Happiness exists only in acceptance.

Who controls the past directs the future. Whoever directs the future conquers the past.

A tragic situation exists when man is nobler than the forces that destroy him.

Seeing what we have in front of our noses requires a constant struggle.