George Orwell Quotes

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

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

The powerful don't make revolutions

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

An oppressed people will always rise.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

The seed of revolution is repression.