Quotes About George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude," George Orwell argued in his essay "Why I Write,

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

As George Orwell wrote in his book 1984, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

At the height of the Cold War, the CIA made copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm rain down from the Communist sky.

If you rely on a more conventional understanding of the term 'left-wing' as being associated with gradations of socialism in the emancipation of the working class, the Leap Manifesto looks something more along the lines of what the great British socialist and essayist George Orwell was on about in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' in 1937.

At this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent. George Orwell, cited by John Carey

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

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.