Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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