The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Quote by George Orwell

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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...

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...

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Big Brother is watching you.

Big Brother is watching you.

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

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

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues...

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues...

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the...

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the...

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

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

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.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising...

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising...

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about...

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about...

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than...

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than...

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,...

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,...

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...

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty...

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty...