The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in oneโs own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
George OrwellHe was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George OrwellPolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellEnvy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
George OrwellPolitical writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
George Orwell