Famous Quotes by George Orwell

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

George Orwell

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

George Orwell

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

George Orwell

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

George Orwell

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

George Orwell

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

There is no end to the smells, and each one brings back some memory more deeply seated than the one before.

George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms.

George Orwell