“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
Intelligence“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
Truth“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
Age“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
Time“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
War“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
Future“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
War“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“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“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
Family“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
Men“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 has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
Jealousy“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
Religion“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Happiness“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
Funny“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Freedom“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
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