All GEORGE ORWELL Quotes about “Atheism”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.”
“Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.”
“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
“Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.”
“One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.”
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
“The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.”
“A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.”
“One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”

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