George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues…

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one…

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to…

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the…

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil…

Good writing is like a windowpane…

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in…

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that…

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke…

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism…

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength…

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference…