The quotations of

George Orwell

British writer and journalist

1903–1950

39 quotes, most often on Politics, Patriotism and Writing. Part of the Writers collection.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Politics and the English Language (1946)
- Politics
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
- Politics
Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
- Economics
- Politics
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.
Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, as published in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945 (1968)
- Politics
By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled “good” or “bad.”
Notes on Nationalism (1945)
- Patriotism
- Politics
I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty.
Letter to John Middleton Murry (5 August 1944), published in The Collected Essays, Journalism, & Letters, George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 (2000), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus
- Politics
- Truth & Lies
Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.
Notes on Nationalism (1945)
- Patriotism
- Politics
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.
“Why I Write”, Gangrel (Summer 1946)
- Politics
- Writing

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