George Orwell Quotes & Quotations

George Orwell Quotes

» For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

» Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

» One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

» Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

» Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

» The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

» Four legs good, two legs bad.

» If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?

» On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

» He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

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