In the face of pain there are no heroes

-George Orwell, "1984"

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

-George Orwell, "1984"

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.

-George Orwell, "1984"

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

-George Orwell, "1984"

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

-George Orwell, "1984"

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

-George Orwell, "1984"

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

-George Orwell, "1984"

because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves.

-George Orwell, "1984"

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

-George Orwell, "Animal farm"

No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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"

... or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, ‘Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!’

-George Orwell, "Animal farm"

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

-George Orwell, "Animal farm"

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

-George Orwell, "Animal farm"

But it is worth pointing out that the chunk of granite on which it was inscribed weighed close on five tons and was quite certainly put there with the intention, though not the conscious intention, of making sure that Gran’pa Comstock shouldn’t get up from underneath it.

-George Orwell, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"

Probably the greatest cruelty one can inflict on a child is to send it to school among children richer than itself.

-George Orwell, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"

Багачеві ніколи не прикинутися бідняком; гроші, як труп, обов'язково спливають.

-George Orwell, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"

...and, like most ‘educated’ people, she knew virtually no history

-George Orwell, "Clergyman's Daughter"

Dorothy did not reflect, consciously, that the solution to her difficulty lay in accepting the fact that there was no solution

-George Orwell, "Clergyman's Daughter"

But now and again it so happens that you strike a book which is exactly at the mental level you’ve reached at the moment, so much so that it seems to have been written specially for you

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

When you’ve lived with a woman for fifteen years, it’s difficult to imagine life without her. She’s part of the order of things.

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

I’ve got more the prole’s attitude towards money. Life’s here to be lived, and if we’re going to be in the soup next week–well, next week is a long way off

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

А часи після війни, скажу вам, були дикуваті... Мільйони чоловіків, зігнаних до армії і одночасно знову викинутих у мирний побут, знайшли країну, за яку вони билися, не тією, що очікували...

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

By 1918 one had simply got out of the habit of expecting things to happen in a reasonable manner

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

I had a look at the paper, but there wasn’t much news. Down in Spain and over in China they were murdering one another as usual

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

If I was Hitler I’d send my bombers across in the middle of a disarmament conference

-George Orwell, "Comming up for Air"

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

-George Orwell, "Homage to Catalonia"

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.

-George Orwell, "Down and Out in Paris and London"