Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
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 ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
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 ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLIn philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL