On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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 further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL