The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. Votes: 11
Big Brother is watching you. Votes: 10
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. Votes: 8
Good writing is like a windowpane. Votes: 5
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Votes: 0
the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. Votes: 0
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. Votes: 0
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. Votes: 0
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. Votes: 0
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. Votes: 0
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature Votes: 0
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. Votes: 0
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. Votes: 0
Four legs good, two legs bad. Votes: 0
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. Votes: 0
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose Votes: 0
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. Votes: 0
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. Votes: 0
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. Votes: 0
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist Votes: 0
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. Votes: 0
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. Votes: 0
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. Votes: 0
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. Votes: 0
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. Votes: 0
Vicisti, O Aspidistra! Votes: 0
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. Votes: 0
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. Votes: 0
Sanity is not statistical. Votes: 0
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good. Votes: 0
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Votes: 0
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. Votes: 0
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. Votes: 0
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. Votes: 0
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. Votes: 0
A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today Votes: 0
All art is propaganda. Votes: 0
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. Votes: 0
And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. Votes: 0
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. Votes: 0
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. Votes: 0
Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane. Votes: 0
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution Votes: 0
For the future. For the unborn. Votes: 0
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. Votes: 0
He loved Big Brother. Votes: 0
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. Votes: 0
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. Votes: 0
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. Votes: 0
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. Votes: 0
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. Votes: 0
Napoleon is always right. Votes: 0
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Votes: 0
No one is patriotic about taxes. Votes: 0
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. Votes: 0
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. Votes: 0
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Votes: 0
Poverty is spiritual halitosis. Votes: 0
Power is not a means; it is an end. Votes: 0
Reality is inside the skull. Votes: 0
The belly comes before the soul. Votes: 0
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. Votes: 0
The more intelligent, the less sane Votes: 0
the mute protest in your own bones Votes: 0
The object of powder is powder. Votes: 0
The object of power is power. Votes: 0
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. Votes: 0
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men Votes: 0
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' Votes: 0
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. Votes: 0
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language Votes: 0
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. Votes: 0
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. Votes: 0
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. Votes: 0
Weakness is strength. Votes: 0
What happens to you here is forever. Votes: 0
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. Votes: 0
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Votes: 0
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. Votes: 0
Writing a novel is agony. Votes: 0
Four legs gooood, two legs baaad! Votes: 0