black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

George Orwell

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joke One Liner Revolution
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL

According Action Bad Goodness Merit
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL

Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Knowledge Reading
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Destroy Enemy
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Media People Tell
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Club Ground Man Police
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 ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELL

Except Inside Skull
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELL

Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL

Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Orwell Quotes