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 ORWELLOf 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 ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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 ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL