Writing 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 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 ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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 ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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 ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
GEORGE ORWELLFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL