The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELL -
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL -
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL -
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL