Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies , evasions , folly , hatred and .
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us"Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep...
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
International sport is war without shooting.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.