Quote #18889
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before...
Category Archives: George Orwell
Quote #18874
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it...
Quote #18875
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers...
Quote #18876
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps...
Quote #18877
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is...
Quote #18878
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one...
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....