All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970