If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELL