The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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 ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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 ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELL