George Orwell
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is war minus the shooting.”
“In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“The object of power is power.”
“Big Brother is watching you.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”