George Orwell

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

George Orwell

It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

George Orwell

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

George Orwell

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

George Orwell