Quotations from George Orwell, 1903-1950
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Animal Farm [1945], ch. 10- Big Brother is watching you.
1984 [1948], opening line- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
- If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
- The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
- Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
- As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
- To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
- In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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