Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell

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

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell

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.
George Orwell

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell