List of quotes from George Orwell
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
by George Orwell
"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."
by George Orwell
"He who controls the past controls the future."
by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
by George Orwell
"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."
by George Orwell
"Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows."
by George Orwell
"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned."
by George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
by George Orwell
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
by George Orwell
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
by attributed George Orwell
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
by George Orwell