Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.
We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us"Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep...
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttle...
They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. I had never heard of a man or an...
To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so lo...
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except th...
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have...
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.