Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George OrwellNo one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.
George OrwellThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.
George Orwell