Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL