To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLThe war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL