A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – 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
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell