No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.George Orwell
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.George Orwell
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.George Orwell
