Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwell Future
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 Jealousy
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. -George Orwell Men
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. -George Orwell War
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. -George Orwell Age
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. -George Orwell Family
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. -George Orwell War
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. -George Orwell Society
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. -George Orwell Imagination
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. -George Orwell Happiness
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell Peace
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 War
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. -George Orwell Intelligence
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -George Orwell Time
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -George Orwell Freedom
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell Men
