Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache…

George Orwell
540 citations
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ✨ Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun. Tribune, December 20, 1943.
Thought
35

More Author Quotes

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ✨ George Orwell (1968). The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. ✨ George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). All Art Is Propaganda: C … ▶
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. ✨ George Orwell (1963). George Orwell's 1984, p.55, Dramatic Publishing
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. ✨ 1984. Book by George Orwel … ▶
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. ✨ George Orwell (1974). Burmese Days, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. ✨ Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun. Tribune, December 20, 1943.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes