George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history and become truth.

A people that has once been thoroughly purged of the desire for liberty will not regain it.

Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie.

Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one.

Good prose is like a window pane.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is prepared to muddle along, to be imperfect and yet to remain sane.

I am not a pacifist.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

The greatest danger to freedom is an apathetic citizenry.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If you are to avoid being a slave you must be a rebel.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

All the best people are eccentrics.

Big Brother is watching you.