George Orwell

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

In a society where everyone is guilty, the only crime is getting caught.

Big Brother is watching you

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.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In times of deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.