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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

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