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.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
