The 34 best quotes by George Orwell, author of "Animal Farm".

These are the best famous quotes from the author of "Animal Farm" and "1984".

George Orwell (1903 - 1950) was a brilliant British dystopian writer, born in London, especially famous for two of his works: "1984" and "Animal Farm".

In his books, George Orwell - who was actually a pseudonym and his real name was Eric Arthur Blair - transports us to a world in conflict. It is not strange, since he lived through turbulent times, opposing British imperialism and the Italian and German totalitarianisms of the 20th century.

George Orwell's Famous Sentences

His novels critical of the status quo of his time are a real object of study for sociologists and social psychologists of our time. His work, although forged in the first half of the twentieth century, has a totally contemporary reading.

Through this article we are going to know the best quotes by George OrwellThese are famous quotes that reveal the thoughts and values of this global journalist.

1. The important thing is not to stay alive but to stay human.

Vitalism without limits.

2. If the leader says that such and such an event did not happen, it did not happen. If he says that two and two are five, then two and two are five. This perspective worries me much more than the bombs.

Excerpt from his famous work 1984.

I would not want to see the USSR destroyed and I think it should be defended if necessary. But I want people to become disillusioned with it and understand that they must build their own socialist movement without Russian interference.

A pessimistic view on the tutelage of the Soviet Union.

4. War is war. The only good human being is the one who has died.

George Orwell's famous quote from another of his best known works: Animal Farm.

5. If he who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past?

A reflection that leaves a big question in the air.

6. Until they are aware of their strength, they will not rebel, and until after they have revealed themselves, they will not be aware. That is the problem.

About the docility of the masses, and why in many cases they do not wake up despite being victims of oppression.

7. Freedom means freedom to say that two plus two is four. If that is admitted, everything else is given in addition.

The obvious must also be able to be counted. And the not so obvious, by extension.

8. Seeing what is in front of our eyes requires constant effort.

Because it is omnipresent, sometimes the obvious is invisible to our eyes.

9. The characteristic of today's life is not insecurity and cruelty, but uneasiness and poverty.

On the miseries of the times he lived in, marked by war and hardship.

10. If freedom means anything, it is, above all, the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

This is probably George Orwell's best remembered phrase.

11. In times of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

His journalistic facet attests to this maxim on freedom of expression.

12. Power lies in inflicting Pain and humiliation.

Any form of power tends to exercise a framework of repression and indoctrination, according to Orwell.

12. Humanity is unlikely to be able to safeguard civilization unless it can evolve a system of good and evil that is independent of heaven and hell.

On religion and the ethical development essential for the survival of our societies.

13. Language should be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

A unique vision of communication.

14. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be tolerated when "our" side commits it.

The end cannot justify the means, not even when you believe in the final purpose of certain actions.

15. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of the atrocities committed by his own side, but has an extraordinary ability to not even hear about them.

Very much in line with the previous sentence.

16. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Excerpt from Animal Farm.

17. A spicy joke is a kind of mental rebellion.

Especially in an age of a certain repression of intimate matters.

18. Perhaps one does not so much wish to be loved as to be understood.

In love, perhaps we seek a protective gaze, and not so much to experience great emotions and feelings.

19. The party wants to have power for the love of power itself.

Political reflection in one of George Orwell's most memorable phrases.

Everything happens in the mind and only what happens there has a reality.

We are slaves of our own thoughts and reflections.

21. Doublethink means the power to hold two contradictory beliefs in the mind simultaneously, and to accept both.

A concept of cognitive psychology that was described in this way by the great Orwell.

22. Power is not a means; it is an end in itself.

Unfortunately, power only serves to contain itself.

23. The invention of the printing press greatly facilitated the handling of information.

A somewhat obvious reflection on Gutenberg's invention.

24. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

Surrender is always the end point.

25. When you loved someone, you loved him for himself, and if there was nothing else to give him, you could always give him love.

Magnificent thought about true love, whatever the circumstances.

26. They can force you to say anything, but there is no way they can make you believe it. They can never get inside you.

On dignity and belief.

27. It is impossible to found a civilization on fear, hatred and cruelty. It would not last.

Repression has its hours numbered: there is no human being who does not rebel at one time or another.

28. We have fallen so low that the reformulation of the obvious is the first obligation of an intelligent man.

Orwell's phrase is especially understandable given the context of totalitarianism that prevailed in Europe.

29. Nothing will change as long as power remains in the hands of a privileged minority.

Oligarchies always look out for their own short term good.

30. Sanity does not depend on statistics.

Extract from 1984.

31. All the war propaganda, all the cries and lies and hatred, invariably come from people who are not fighting.

Those who pull the war strings are comfortably seated in golden armchairs.

32. Every year there will be fewer words, so the radius of action of consciousness will be smaller and smaller.

Our language is our world, as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein would say.

33. Even as a young man, I had noticed that no newspaper ever gives an accurate account of how things happen.

Objectivity is lost when the editorial line depends on the criteria of the head of the media.

34. The more a society deviates from the truth, the more it will hate those who proclaim it.

Essential political reflection to stop and think about the design of a society in which lies reign.