George Orwell

Four legs good, two legs bad…

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without…

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity…

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than…

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already…

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the…

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war…

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about…

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to…

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it…

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness…

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human…

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception…

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can…

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will…