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The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.