George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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

I do not think one can assess a writer__ motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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.