"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, whil...
Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
More George Orwell quotes
"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
"You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps – scum, they are. You don't want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They...
"People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit i...
"A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind ...
"It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if...
"Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
"Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as thoug...
"For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, ...
"Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. W...
"The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by th...
"Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to...