George Orwell Quotes

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time and said the famous words, 'That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind,' he was talking about all of us. Men and women.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

What a piece of work is a man

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.