George Orwell Quotes

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

America's conscience is bankrupt. She lost all conscience a long time ago. Uncle Sam has no conscience.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

That which is evil is soon learned.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.