“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
Age“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Good“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
Age“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
Truth“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
Time“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Time“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Freedom“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
Great“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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
Future“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Men“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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
History“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
War“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“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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
War“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Good“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Good“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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
Intelligence