George Orwell

real name Eric Arthur Blair; English (born in India) novelist and war correspondent; b. 1903; d. 1950 · 5 aphorisms · no comments

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

Edit Comment# · Fair (726 ratings) · submitted 1997

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Edit Comment# · Fair (765 ratings) · submitted 1999

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

Edit Comment# · Fair (846 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Caleb Ronsen (updated 1999)

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

Edit Comment# · Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997

On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.

Edit Comment# · Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997

You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.