Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLIn 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 ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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 ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELL