The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
George OrwellAt any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
George OrwellIt is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
George OrwellThe opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George OrwellBut what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.
George Orwell