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 ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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 ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLI do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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 ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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 ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL