The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
George OrwellThe aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
George OrwellThere, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man
George OrwellIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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