Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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 ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLWe shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL