The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLTo die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL