Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. George Orwell Read Quote
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell Read Quote
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. George Orwell Read Quote
War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. George Orwell Read Quote
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. George Orwell Read Quote
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. George Orwell Read Quote
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. George Orwell Read Quote