Selected quotes · 28
№ 01
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
George OrwellHappiness
№ 02
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 03
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
George OrwellHappiness
№ 04
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 05
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 06
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 07
“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
George OrwellSuccess
№ 08
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 09
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George OrwellFreedom
№ 10
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
George OrwellTime
№ 11
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
George OrwellFreedom
№ 12
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.”
George OrwellLife
№ 13
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George OrwellCreativity
№ 14
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
George OrwellHappiness
№ 15
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George OrwellJustice
№ 16
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
George OrwellLife
№ 17
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George OrwellJustice
№ 18
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 19
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.”
George OrwellCourage
№ 20
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George OrwellTime
№ 21
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
George OrwellFreedom
№ 22
“The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 23
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
George OrwellLove
№ 24
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
George OrwellAction
№ 25
“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 OrwellCreativity
№ 26
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
George OrwellGrowth
№ 27
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
George OrwellWisdom
№ 28
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
George OrwellWisdom