George Orwell Quotes

I sincerely wish ingratitude was not so natural to the human heart as it is.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.