Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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 ORWELL