George Orwell Quotes

Big Brother is watching you.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen. Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that this time winter is going to be permanent. But Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead at about the same moment. Suddenly, towards the end of March, the miracle happens and the decaying slum in which I live is transfigured.

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?

It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.