The best Quotes by George Orwell

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

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

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

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

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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