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George Orwell quotes about hope

9 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as George Orwell wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 146 in the full collection.

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I will work harder!
— Boxer (dialogue) · George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945), Chapter III
I don't want the women, I don't even want to be young again. I only want to be alive.
— George Bowling (narration) · George Orwell, Coming Up for Air (1939), Part III, chapter 2
All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure.
— George Orwell, Critical Essays (1946), "Arthur Koestler"
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out.
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), Chapter III
One had been in a community where hope was more normal than apathy or cynicism, where the word 'comrade' stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938), Chapter 8
Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938), Chapter 14
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
— Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 7
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
— Winston Smith (diary) · George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Part One, Chapter 7
I believe in England, and I believe that we shall go forward.
— George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941), Part III: The English Revolution

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