One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George OrwellIf you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
George OrwellLooking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.
George OrwellThe human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
George OrwellFootball, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
George OrwellEvery record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
George Orwell