On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELLI do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELLOf pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL