George Orwell Quotes

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

First the grub, then the morals.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Each of us is a spirit in material form.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

The belly has no ears.

Eager for bread and love.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.