Good writing is like a windowpane. George Orwell on good
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell on good
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. George Orwell on good
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell on good
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. George Orwell on great
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell on happiness
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell on happiness
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell on history
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell on imagination
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell on intelligence
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell on intelligence
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 Orwell on jealousy
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell on men
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell on men
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell on men
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell on men
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell on men
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. George Orwell on men
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell on patriotism
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell on peace