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George Orwell - From the Acceptance category:
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Aging category:
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Art category:
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Belief category:
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Books category:
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions toward books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Children category:
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Commerce category:
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Fire category:
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Freedom category:
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Freedom category:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Future category:
People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Goodness category:
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Goodness category:
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Happiness category:
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Humour category:
Whatever is funny is subversive; every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Ideas category:
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Ideas category:
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Language category:
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Language category:
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Patriotism category:
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Peace category:
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Perfection category:
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Plagiarism category:
Dickens is one of those authors who is well worth stealing. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Pleasure category:
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Politics category:
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Religion category:
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Responsibility category:
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Seeing category:
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Sincerity category:
For a creative writer, possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Standards category:
-Animal Farm, 1945...
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Suffering category:
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Survival category:
To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Technology category:
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Time category:
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Truth category:
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Truth category:
Myths believed tend to become true. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Windows category:
One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Winning category:
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Wisdom category:
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 Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Words category:
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. (George Orwell)
George Orwell - From the Writing category:
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. (George Orwell)
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