George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist...

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to...

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.