George Orwell quotes about disillusionment

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

Napoleon is always right.

That is our victory.

Why, of course, the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them.

You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.

All Englishmen are virtuous when they are dead.

Coming up for air! But there isn't any air. The dustbin that we're in reaches up to the stratosphere.

Wells is too sane to understand the modern world.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Libel settles nothing.

Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.

…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.

Failure is as great a swindle as success.