Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far...
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son," attributed to George Orwell
All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All an...
International sport is war without shooting.
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored w...
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because yo...