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 of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Big Brother is watching you.

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...

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.