George Orwell quotes about change

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

A feeling of security, even when they weren't secure. More exactly, it was a feeling of continuity.

It's easy enough to die if the things you care about are going to survive.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

If men would behave decently the world would be decent.

It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty.

I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy.

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.

…all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.

If men would behave decently the world would be decent.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Revolution does not mean red flags and street fighting, it means a fundamental shift of power.

We cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.

It will shoot traitors, but it will give them a solemn trial beforehand and occasionally it will acquit them.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear.

That was what we were taught—the lower classes smell.

we have nothing to lose but our aitches.