Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLConfession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLI do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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 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 object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL