Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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 ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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 ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL