It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. - George Orwell
People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. - George Orwell
A world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. - George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. This is an illusion. - George Orwell
The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits atrocities but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future. - George Orwell
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later, a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on the battlefield. - George Orwell
In every one of those little stucco boxes, there s some poor bastard who' s never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming - George Orwell
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell
Double-think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - George Orwell
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell
If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can t have any result whatever, you've beaten them - George Orwell
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother. - Buddha
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