If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
GEORGE ORWELLConfession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLIn philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL