On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
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 ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELL