Quote #18877
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is...
Category Archives: George Orwell
Quote #18878
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one...
Quote #18879
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to...
Quote #18880
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely...
Quote #18881
…Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are...
Quote #18882
It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of...
Quote #14184
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,...
Quote #14052
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man...
Quote #12345
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid,...
Quote #12217
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous....