Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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 ORWELLHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLBeauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELL