On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell quote Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell quote No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell quote Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell quote Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell quote Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell quote If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
George Orwell quote It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell quote Biography
Author of classics such as 'Nineteen eighty four'
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