The organizing principal for any culture is War. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. George Orwell issues important wish The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell wisdom life believe Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. George Orwell love romantic giving To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! George Orwell brother men past The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. George Orwell intelligent personality men All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. George Orwell strong tea years It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. George Orwell anxiety knowing dog The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. George Orwell sarcasm sarcastic funny All art is propaganda. George Orwell art-is propaganda art The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. George Orwell praise book facts 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 to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell democracy political country The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. George Orwell pain hard-work love You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. George Orwell lunatic minorities If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. George Orwell keeping-secrets nineteen kept-secrets The more men you've had, the more I love you. George Orwell love-you men It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world. George Orwell wall heart lying You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. George Orwell hollow empty Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell acceptance literature happiness There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. George Orwell daughter writing way Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. George Orwell our-lives miserable faces
