Orwell Quotations

George Orwell quotations on Wikiquote

“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.”

“[T]here is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years” and many more can be found on Wikiquote here.

Not everything attributed to George Orwell was said by him. He did not say “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

And Orwell did not say “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”