“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
Truth“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
Good“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
Truth“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Freedom“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
God“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
Future“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Patriotism“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
Time“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Future“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
Family“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”
Good“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Happiness“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Happiness“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
War“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Good“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
War“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Power“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Time“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
Religion“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Freedom“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
Men“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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