Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLConfession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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 ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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 ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL