George Orwell

"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

George Orwell "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

George Orwell "The Lion and the Unicorn"

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Patriotism

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

George Orwell "The Road to Wigan Pier"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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 "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Manners and Ethics

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell "Animal Farm"

Justice

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Liberal - a power worshipper without power."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

George Orwell

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

George Orwell

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Defeates and Mistakes

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)