George Orwell Quotes

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

The preposterous distinctions of rank, which render civilization a curse, by dividing the world between voluptuous tyrants and cunning envious dependents, corrupt, almost equally, every class of people, because respectability is not attached to the discharge of the relative duties of life, but to the station…

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.