The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good. George Orwell View this quote
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. George Orwell
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
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as ‘robust.’ George Orwell
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. George Orwell
A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea. George Orwell
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks. George Orwell
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature. George Orwell
A minority of one… the definition of insanity. George Orwell
English author and journalist
June 25th, 1903 - January 21st, 1950
