The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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 shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELLMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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 ORWELLWhen 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