George Orwell Quotes

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

The question is very simple. Shall the common man be pushed back in the mud, or shall he not? That was the real issue of the Spanish war.

I am going to fight for important things.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

I believe in the Corporal Works of Mercy, the Ten Commandments, the American Declaration of Independence and James Connolly’s outline of a socialist society… Most of my life I’ve been called a lunatic because I believe that I am my brother’s keeper. I organize poor and exploited workers, I fight for the civil rights of minorities, and I believe in peace. It appears to have become old-fashioned to make social commitments — to want a world free of war, poverty and disease. This is my religion

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. …. We shall fight on the beaches … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.

Either you were opposed to the growth of Fascism and went out to fight against it, or you acquiesced in its crimes and permitted its growth.

Our valiant legionnaires and Regulares have shown what it is to be a man to the reds and their women who have finally known real men and not militiamen.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

I would rather have a man that knows and loves what he fights for... than a man which you call a "gentleman".

He [Jacob Riis] had the most flaming intensity of passion for righteousness.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

The man who runs may fight again.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.