George Orwell quotes about freedom

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.

It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face.

It is a land where the bus conductors are good-tempered and the policemen carry no revolvers.

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.

At those times the place is like hell, or at any rate like my own mental picture of hell.

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

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

Socialism means the overthrow of tyranny, at home as well as abroad.