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

Quote by George Orwell

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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's...

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's...

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting...

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...

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can...

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can...

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

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 aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind...

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind...

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke...

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke...

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

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war...

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war...

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the...

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the...

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

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

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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

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

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives...

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives...