15 Quotes by George Orwell that'll make you think

George Orwell was the pen name of the late author Eric Arthur Blair.

His reputation is built on his pen name and the late George Orwell is widely respected as a novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.

In fact, he was arguably one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, certainly in the English-speaking world.

George Orwell’s best-known novels Animal Farm and 1984 are still essential reading for anyone with a desire to be considered well-read.

So here are 15 quotes by George Orwell that are I think guaranteed to make you think dear reader.

Quotes by George Orwell:

Big Brother is watching you. ~George Orwell
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. ~George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. ~George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~George Orwell
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 schizophrenia. ~George Orwell
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ~George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ~George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~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
All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ~George Orwell

Society has always demanded a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ~George Orwell
Early in life, I noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ~George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ~George Orwell

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