“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
God“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Happiness“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
God“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Happiness“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Freedom“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
Fear“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
Society“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Happiness“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
Equality“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”
War“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”
Politics“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
War“There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.”
War“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
Education“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
Power“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
Best“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
War“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”
Best“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
Age“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Time“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
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