George Orwell Quotes

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

We live in a scientific revolution. In such an epoch of revolutionary change, those who identity laissez-faire with liberty are enemies, however unwitting, of democracy

We cannot and will not rest until we have won true swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions - until we have wiped out poverty from our land.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Sure, we could send in the troops, but the threat of communism wouldn’t diminish until the people’s standard of living was improved and the totalitarian countries of Latin America gave them more freedom.

It’s been a very slow, very expensive business—reforming the welfare state.

Civil rights are meaningless without economic rights.

We are making our revolution slowly and by constitutional methods.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Abolish Poverty