Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbitsโare they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
George OrwellDo you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George OrwellA family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George OrwellWe are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George OrwellWe have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.
George Orwell