Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Four legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Man 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 ORWELL -
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL -
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL -
In 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 ORWELL -
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELL -
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 ORWELL -
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL -
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 ORWELL







