Ten of My Favourite George Orwell Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author George Orwell, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with George Orwell you will find my ten favourites of George Orwell’s quotes.
Popular Quotes
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“In a time of deceit telling the
truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“All animals are equal, but some animals are favourites than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
“Every 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
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The most effective way to
destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their
history.”
― George Orwell
10 Famous Quotes by Author George Orwell
So there you have it my ten favourite quotes by George Orwell, please comment below and share your favourite quotes by the fantastic author George Orwell. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for George Orwell.
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One Final Bonus – Longer – Geroge Orwell Quote
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. 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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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