Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining out...
[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to f...
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, eve...
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you...
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
When I was young and had no senseIn far-off MandalayI lost my heart to a Burmese girlAs lovely as the day.Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,her teeth were ivory;I said, "For twenty silver pieces,Mai...
Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a re...
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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.
Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?
What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if...
Big Brother is watching you.