In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Quote by George Orwell

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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

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

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

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

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

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass...

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High,...

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High,...

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

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that...

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship...

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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of...

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of...

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.