George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
