Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Quote by George Orwell

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the...

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the...

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as...

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as...

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going...

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going...

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought...

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought...

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ï¿½ that one...

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ï¿½ that one...

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the...

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the...

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class...

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class...

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one...

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one...

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.