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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Quote by -George Orwell
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Quote by -George Orwell
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Quote by -George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Quote by -George Orwell
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
Quote by -George Orwell
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Quote by -George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Quote by -George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Quote by -George Orwell
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Quote by -George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Quote by -George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Quote by -George Orwell
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Quote by -George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Quote by -George Orwell
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Quote by -George Orwell
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
Quote by -George Orwell
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
Quote by -George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Quote by -George Orwell
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
Quote by -George Orwell
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Quote by -George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Quote by -George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Quote by -George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Quote by -George Orwell
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Quote by -George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Quote by -George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Quote by -George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
Quote by -George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Quote by -George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Quote by -George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Quote by -George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Quote by -George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Quote by -George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Quote by -George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Quote by -George Orwell
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Quote by -George Orwell