Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by George Orwell.
Top 25 George Orwell Quotes and Sayings
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.