George Orwell

The best books (...) are those that tell you what you know already.

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

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one`s intelligence.

Painting is the only art that can be practised without either talent or hard work.

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The truest happiness [...] lay in working hard and living frugally.