George Orwell quotes about identity

Faith vanishes, but the need for faith remains the same as before.

You stick to the Christian scheme of things, but you leave Paradise out of it.

…it's the things that happen inside you that matter.

Once a priest always a priest.

Napoleon is always right.

In any town in India the European Club is the spiritual citadel, the real seat of the British power, the Nirvana for which native officials and millionaires pine in vain.

But it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear.

So great is the difference between two sets of initials!

…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.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It isn't a coin, it's the answer to a riddle.

It is in the brain and the soul that lack of money damages you.

DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow.

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes.

I believe in England, and I believe that we shall go forward.

He is a sort of caryatid upon whose shoulders nearly everything that is not grimy is supported.