Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell
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. – George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell