George Orwell: Trending quotes (page 15)

Source: "Why I Write" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/write.html, Gangrel (Summer 1946)
Context: Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
It is not easy. It raises problems of construction and of language, and it raises in a new way the problem of truthfulness.

Love , Pleasure , Feeling

“The end was contained in the beginning.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Power is not a means; it is an end.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”

George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

Life , Books , Idea

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

George Orwell

Notes on Nationalism (1945)

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Truth

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices”

George Orwell

According to Reuters Fact Check team there is no evidence of the quotation in collections of Orwell’s works. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-orwell-quote-corrupt-idUSKCN2AT2W5

People

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

Life

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Reality

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984