The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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 ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLYour worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLWhen I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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 ORWELL