Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. — George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. — George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot. — George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. — George Orwell
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities — George Orwell
The catholic and the communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. — George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. — George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. — George Orwell
Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. — George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. — George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. — George Orwell
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong — George Orwell
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. — George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. — George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. — George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” all issues are political issues — George Orwell