He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?
George OrwellThat rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
George OrwellSnobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
George OrwellAll the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George OrwellNot to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell