Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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 greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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 ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL