George Orwell quotes about freedom

Thou shalt not lose thy job.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

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

Fear! We swim in it. It's our element.

There's time for everything except the things worth doing.

I'm not frightened of the war, only the after-war.

And yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie…

All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work.

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear.

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

One had been in a community where hope was more normal than apathy or cynicism, where the word 'comrade' stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug.

Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing.

If men would behave decently the world would be decent.

All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

…the face of a man who is generously angry—in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

But notice the phrase 'necessary murder'. It could only be written by a person to whom murder is at most a word.

The whale's belly is simply a womb big enough for an adult.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles.

There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.