The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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 ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL