George Orwell: Trending quotes (page 10)

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.”

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

“Inequality was the price of civilization.”

“The more men you've had, the more I love you.”

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

“How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.”

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”

“And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”

“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

“At night all cats are grey.”

“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”

“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”